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Translation.
20 JUL 03)
A report on the result of secret enquiries made
by the writer in Hongkong.
Of the successive rebellious movements the first
was that of Sun Man (alias Sun Yat Sin), a native of Heung Shan.
This man was the leader of the Fo Mau Society (society for the
protection of the people). The aims and opinions of this
society have always been different from the Po Wong Society (society for the protection of the Emperor) of Hong Yun Wai, and they had nothing whatever in common, for the protection of the poeple, and the protection of the Emperor, are as two different roads. The rebellion of Sun Mau took place during the 21st. year of Kwong Sui, and as it did not succeed, Sun fled to Japan, and afterwards joined with the leaders/the Reform party Chan Kwai Shek alias Chan Shui Pak and more than 20 Christian converts whose professed aim was to civilize and save China. This party
Kaw engaged Hung Chun Kwai alias Hung Fuk, to unlawfully pass him- self off as a general in the Army. They also got together the sum of $180,000 for supplies, wages etc., and falsely made out that this Hung Chun Kwai was a brother of the Tai Ping leader Heung Sau Chun, who when that rebellion had been suppressed, secretly hid himself at Washington, U.S.A. He is now over 70 years of age, and a few years since returned to China and took up his abode in a drug shop in Sai Ying Pun in Hongkong. This man is a triad society leader. The reform party called upon this man to exert himself and take the lead; and as in Hongkong there are many bad characters of a poor status, and in the many neighbouring places many Christian Hakka who can be easily moved, the movement gradually and secretly permeated amongst the rebels in the districts of Nam Hoi, Pun U, Tsing Un, Fa Un,
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