COPY.
Confidential.
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Supreme Court,
hongkong,
April 21st., 1905.
Dear May,
Your letter of today puts me in a fix. )
was certainly informed on reliable authority on the afternoon of
the day that the "China Mail" published its article, that kyshe
had been to the "China Mail" and that an article was to appear
that evening leaving out all reference to Kyshe and a quotation
from "Truth". The article appeared although I asked that it
should not as I considered the whole matter closed. The "China
Mail" article appeared and then the article in the "Hongkong
Telegraph" and from the fact that the reference to kyshe and the
quotation from "Truth" appeared in it, it is obvious that Kyshe
must have gone to the "Hongkong Telegraph" with his story. I
personally have no knowledge of this. Kyshe i hear has denied it.
1 must decline to give the name of my informant as to the first
part of my statement for obvious reasons, but must also state
that as I am the person chiefly interested, any further enouiry
in my opinion is only making a mountain out of a mole bill.
Kyshe and 1 are not friends and any action on my part would be
misconstrued. Of course you may show this to the Governor.
Yours very sincerely,
(Sd.) Alfred G. Wise.