When the Revolution that brought about the overthrow of the Manchus swept down, upon this part of the world the Imperal officials were wiped out, or chased out, and. the seats of the mighty in the province were occupied by a gang of rascals known asthe Ko-tel, akin yo that notorious Szechuan' organization known as the Ko-lao-hwei, It was a secret soclely at the time of the Manchu Dynasty, was founded for benevolent. purposes, but eventually fell from grace, and, in its ranks, collected the never-do-wells "who wished to trade on the populace under the guise of @ charitable institution, 'Young officers who belonged to the society "jumped," as it were, the official seats, and' promptly they had the gentry of the city up agains" them, though the latter did nex openly show their opposition. This was a time when Auent "orators" were able to form parties, and there were lots of them' milling around for power until the gentry. secretly induced the then Tutuh of Yunnan, Tang Chi-yao, a very young fellow, to come in and save them. He came in, but whether he saved them of not does not seem to be proved. la fact he swept as the new broom is credited with sweeping once he got over with the fighting that greeted his appearance near the city, ana when he went out some time' Jater took with him all he could extract from the people, Mediocre governors followed this enterprising "young man. At the that Yuan Shihkal started his mjonareny movement Liu Hsien-shih, of the Hungi clique, was the Tuenun here, and he was offered a barony. Everything was made ready to except the distinction with the dis play that Kweiyang supposed bscame such an honour, and Tang Chi-yao, Tuchun at Yunnan, was to given an earldom, and Tang was ready to accept it, "when the redoubtable Tsai-ao appeared upon the having escaped from Peking, where Yuan Shih-kai had him for a long time under surveillance in a sinecure post which alleged to have something to do with a cadastral survey oF something.
Tiles Forfeited The writer saw him in Peking a day or so before he escaped and Tsai said then that soon he wou! be gone. His appearance at Yunna> startled both Tang Chi-yao, and his neighbour here, for he compelled Tang to deliver an ultimatum to Yuan which ended on Christmas Day of 1915, and Tang had to forego his earldom and its panoplies and undertake a revolution agains, the would-be Emperor.
Liu, of this city, lost his barony owing to the tide of war sweeping across his. province on its way 10 the centre of China, and he flet before it to Shanghai, Later he re turned, but Tang Chi-yao sent with him to Kweiyang his cousin, 'Tang Chi-Vu, as Vice-Tupan, 'Tang of Yunnan still being paramount in the Province, Liu, finding that the' people of Kweichow hated him ringing in the Yunnanese eventually went off his head and died in Yunnan. The present Minister of War, General Mo. Ying-chin, is nephew of the unhappy man, ani also a native of Hingl. Tang Chi-yn did not last tong, and was driven out, to be followed by two others in "turn, "two who left no monument to themselves.
'A Real Man Then came the real man of province, Chow Si-cheng, on June 1, 1926. He came from Tungtze, but he made his mark on the province in the shape of a system of highways which are a real. monument him, though the people erected a statue of sorts to him in a circle jin the city, and it looks the image of Rodney 'Gilbert, the author of "what's Wrong With China." large of head, short' of body, fat and rotund.' Chow built his lengthy highways north, south, east, and west, against the opinion of the public and the jeers of those who sibility of cutting them mountains, But Chow despised his rities and built his roads. He did other things of benedt besides bulld-ing highways, but some say he was rather ruthless in the way that he did the latter, and being an impetus ous man he was killed in August} of 1928.
The Yunnanese were attacking the province and had penetrated over the dificult mountains west of Anshun, and were nearing a spot where the river falls over a cliff about 150 feet high ahd bolts in cataracts into a deep declivity. Here, Governor Chow, rushing from the capital in his car, met his retreat-Ing braves and commanded them to stand, placing a field or machine fun in the middle of his highway fand threatening to fire on his forces if they falled to face the foe.
Another Version said that an orderly standing by retorted "If we are going to die
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