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districts and are nearly all members of the Tung
Ming Fui ( Sworn Brotherhood ) which planned the
overthrow of the two Kwang Provinces, started the
revolution in Canton and has been agitating for a
predominant influence in the Government of China.
The revolution in Wuchangwas started by quite a
different party, headed by Li Yuen-hing, and now
called the Republican Party,
I understand that in North China the Tung
Ming Wui has recently assumed the style of the
Nationalist Party. It's leaders are Sun Yat Sen,
Wong Hing, Wong Ching-wei and Wu Hon Man, the
present Governor-General of the Kwang tung Province.
It was through the Sze Yap Association that
money and men were procured from Hongkong for the
revolution at Canton. When Canton was handed over
to the revolutionary party, Li Yuk-tong was made
the Provincial Treasurer and almost all the
important positions under the new Provincial Government
were given to Sze Yap men. At the beginning the Sze Yap Association was the right hand of the Canton Government. It constituted it's intelligence
department, commissiariat and financial agency.
Li Yuk-tong went to Canton as Provincial Treasurer
a poor man. He held office for a few months and returned to Hongkong worth many hundred of thousands of dollars. He has since invested over $100,000
in Hongkong in land alone.
5. When the Chinese in Hongkong representing other districts in China saw that the power in Canton was drifting into the hands of the Sze Yap Association, and that the latter were, by their
efforts
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