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being 200 miles long, and from 4 to 40 broad. Its entrance, 12 miles wide, has on the N. Cape Charles, and on the S. Cape Henry, both promontories being in Virginia. U. S., and Japan. Early in 1905 there arose a Wideapwead demand for radical reforms in administrative methods, and an ensuing period of official temporizing led to 2 formidable revolution. The throne promised an early constitutional government; provincial a emblies were authorized; a_ National —— was convened on Oct. 2, 1910; and a Parlia- {ment of two houses was mya in three years’ time. Meanwhile the revolution spread; Mongolia declared its independence; a provisional republic was founded in Shanghai; the epetial Manchu — abdicated on Feb. 12, 1912; and on Feb. 15, fowne, the National A embly elected Yuan-Shihkai president of the Chinese republic.