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spirited defence of North Formosa against the French in 1884—5, where he held the post of Military Commissioner. When Formosa was subsequently made into a proyince, he was appointed to be its first Govemor; and he signalised his administration by the introduction of a railway, the laying of a submarine cable between Tamsui and Foochow, the construction of a land line of telegraphic communication between the north and south ends of the island, and the working of coal under foreign superintendence, together with many fruitless efforts to '^pacify" the savages of the interior. In 1890 he was made President of the Board of War. He resigned his post in 1891, unable any longer to find the funds for carrying on his numerous undertakings, and was appointed to be Vice President of the Admiralty. For some time he remained in retire* ment, nursing his health, which had suffered greatly from wounds and a prolonged residence in the malarious dimate of Formosa. In 1894, when the Korean peninsula became a bone of contention between China and Japan, he was appointed Commander of the Chinese forces in Korea, but excused himself on the score of bad eyesight. He published some poems which were favourably received. Iiiu Pan ^ ^. Son of Liu Hung, whom he succeeded in A.D. 1333 190 as Emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty. He was shortly afterwards carried off, together with his brother Liu Hsieh, by the eunuchs (see Chang Jang)\ and on his escape from their hands , was immediately deposed by Tung Cho. He reigned only five months in all, and is not regarded by Chinese historians as having actually been in possession of the throne. Known in history as ^ y^. Liu Pang ^ % (T. ^). B.C. 247—195. A native of Fei in 1334 modern Kiangsu, where he became beadle. He was in charge of the caravanserai, and his chief duties. were to check brigandage and settle disputes. His integrity and winning manners gained him such influence that a man of position, named Ltl, gave him his

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