In the years before 1911 he was uictive in revolutionary—propagand: and when the Repubile was forme he represented Kwangtung on the National Provisional Council at Nanking in 1012, Later, he was prominent in journalism in Shanghai, wher he edited the "Chung Hwa Hain Pao, which vigorously "opposed. the attempt by President Yuan Shih-kal to assume the mane of the Manchu found their mark. Earlier reports stated that he had been struck by four bullets, The assassination was a prominent topic of conversation. everywhere in Hankow to-day. Speculation is rife concerning General Yang's successor.
The date of the funeral has not ben. fixed, pending instructions from the murdered man's relatives in Shang-hal—Reuter,
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