Foreign News: Lost Leader

At Peking, Death won its inevitable victory. Its victim was Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder and leader of the Kuo Mintang (Young China) Party.

A year ago (TIME, May 26), his death was prematurely announced; but it was not until last January that he was taken to the Rockefeller Hospital at Peking and declared to be in the advanced stages of cancer of the liver.

Dr. Sun was born in a small village near Canton, where the people are the "old" Chinese, driven south centuries ago. As a boy, he traveled far to reside with his...

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