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Mr. Lu Chih-i was born at Szu-mao Hsien, Yunnan province, in 1880. When a youth he was given a thorough education in Chinese. In 1896 he became a Licentiate or B. A. In the summer of 1904 he went to Japan where he first studied at the Hung Wen Academy taking the normal course and then he joined Waseda University studying Political Economy. It was about the time the Revolutionary Society Tung Ming Hui was organized and Mr. Lu joined it when he was in Japan where the headquarters of this secret society were situated. Upon his return to China, he was made Chief of the Yunnan branch of the Tung Ming Hui. At the same time he was editor of the magazine Yunnan, and the Yunnan Daily, both of which were advocating drastic reform in China. In the winter of 1908 Mr. Lu went to the western part of Yunnan via Burma on an attempt to start the revolution. Finally the plot failed and many of his colleagues were arrested and decapitated. He fled to Rangoon where he became editor-in-chief of the Kuang Hua Daily and Progress. In the winter of 1910 Mr. Lu made another attempt in western Yunnan but it was frustrated by the