The fight for the republic in China . sfilled with adventure and adventuresses and which isthe locality from which Haroun-Al Raschid obtainedthrough the medium of Arab travellers his great story ofAladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. When govern-mental suspicions were thoroughly lulled, he arrangedwith a singing-girl to let him out by the backdoor of herhouse at dawn from whence he escaped to the railway-station, rapidly reaching Tientsin entirely unob-served. The morning was well-advanced before the detectiveswho nightly watched his movements became finding that his whereabouts wer
The fight for the republic in China . sfilled with adventure and adventuresses and which isthe locality from which Haroun-Al Raschid obtainedthrough the medium of Arab travellers his great story ofAladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. When govern-mental suspicions were thoroughly lulled, he arrangedwith a singing-girl to let him out by the backdoor of herhouse at dawn from whence he escaped to the railway-station, rapidly reaching Tientsin entirely unob-served. The morning was well-advanced before the detectiveswho nightly watched his movements became finding that his whereabouts were unknown to thecoachman dozing on the box of his carriage, theyroughly entered the house where he had passed thenight only to find that the bird had flown. Hasty tele-gr£.ms were dispatched in every direction, particularlyto Tientsin—the great centre for political refugees—and his summary arrest ordered. But fortune favouredhmi. A bare quarter-of-an-hour before the police be-gan their search he had embarked with his family on a. General Tsai-ao, vuk IIkko of the Yixxan ;ionOF 1915-16, Who Died from thp: Effects of the Campaign REPUBLIC IN CHINA 245 Japanese steamer lying in the Tientsin river and couldsnap his fingers at Yuan Shih-kai. Once in Japan he lost no time in assembling his revo-lutionary friends and in a body they embarked for SouthChina. As rapidly as possible he reached Yunnanprovince from Hongkong, travelling by way of theFrench Tonkin railway. Entering the province earlyin December he found everything fairly ready for re-volt, though there was a deficiency in arms and muni-tions which had to be made good. Yuan Shih-kai, furi-ous at this evasion, had telegiaphed to confidentialagents in Yunnan to kill him at sight, but fortunatelyhe was warned and spared to perform his importantwork. Had a fortnight of grace been vouchsafed him,he would have probably made the most brilliant moderncampaign that has been witnessed in China, for he wasan excellent sold
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