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General Yang Shen was born at Kuang-an Hsien, Szechuan province, in 1887. He was a Licentiate under the Ching regime. He received his education first in the High Primary School at Kuang-an and later in the Yung-nan Military Academy of Szechuan Province. After graduation from the military school he joined the army and soon made a good record as a disciplinarian. During the second revolution he served in Szechuan as chief of staff of the Third Army. Soon after this he joined the movement to drive the Yunnanese troops from his native province and in this campaign became conmmander of the Second Army. His popularity in his native province has been due to his fairness to his soldiers and to the fact