The Archive · 1941

Chinese Celebrate

"Dr. Sun's Day of Humiliation"

Although meetings will not be held today, Chinese in Shanghai will commemorate the "Humiliation Day of Dr, Sun Yat-sen" by continuing their movement for collecting winter clothes for soldiers and refugees. Silence will be the keynote of the commemoration of the day on which the late Kuomintang leader failed in his frst attempt to overthrow the Chinese imperial regime prior to the establishment of the Republic of China, The day has an important meaning since several other humiliation days are to be commemorated er. The hardships undergone by him during a mutiny in Canton on June 16 and his imprisonment by the imperial Chinese envoy at London on October 1l many years ago are also commemorate today, Dr. Sun was saved by the timely intervention of a foreign "missionary worker then in London,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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