Although nominally which emeer lin the Army of the "Republic of [China, Chang the elder was, at heart, '8 Monarchist, and it is reported that Jon several occasions when passing through Tientsin the had shown his respect for the last of the Ching Emperors, who has since been en: {throned as the Srst Emperor of Man-
[Marshal was once absolute law, 'The story of the Marshal's early, Jcereer, his enlistment In the cavalry, Jduring the SinowJapancse War, his Jactivities during the Russo-Japanese War, and his rapid rise to power at ithe" beginning' of the republican regime, has been told In fragmentary. articles, which "lack. accuracy and. Idid scant justice to the meteoris feureer of this remarkable character,
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