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4. July 1897.
You are to inform K'ung that the United States list produced (Chinese list 4.) It represents the daily payments made to various people.
A considerable amount of money was spent on gambling. It is a detailed list of persons in the employ of the gambling house.
There were over 100 - about 200 - persons in all that received daily bribes.
The list I am quite sure was typewritten. I saw the list being produced. It was the list used every day. Same routine every morning at 7.30 am.
He would take a letter in front of him and then mark out from it the parcels of money for the various recipients. He would mark the names on the outside of the parcels. If there were...