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Mr. Wu Tsung-tzu was born at Nan-feng Hsien, Kiangsi province, in 1879. He was a Yu-Kung-Sheng or Meritorious Senior Licentiate in the Ching Dynasty and distinguished himself as an educationalist by his works in Canton, Kiangsu and Kiangsi. In the late days of the Ching Regime, Mr. Wu made an extensive trip to Japan studying educational conditions in that country. There he made acquaintances with the leaders of the Chinese, revolutionary organs. Upon his return to China, he took up journalistic work in Kuangtung, Kiangsi and Shanghai spreading revolutionary ideas. The daily paper Hsing Hua Pao, a noted revolutionary organ in Peking which had a short life before the First Revolution was also founded by Mr. Wu. Upon the outbreak of the First Revolution he returned to Kiangsi and effected the declaration of independence of that