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Enclosure 3
Extract from a minute by Mr. Messer.
Hon. Colonial Secretary.
C.O 405 36276
REC? 220 001 13
I forward some notes concerning the late lir. Chan King Wah. By his death I have lost a friend, and the Hongkong Government an official who has never failed to grant assistance in putting down crime and maintaining good order in Hongkong and Kwang- tung.
On July 19th. Chan Kwing Ming proclaimed Independenc On July 22nd. Mr. Chan King Wah wrote me a letter, stating that all the animosity was directed against Yuan Shi Kwai for his un-
-constitutional acts, and hoping that the two police forces would continue to act together. After speaking to His Excellency Sir Henry Kay I wrote him a letter, regretting that he was getting
mixed up in a revolution, informing him that the southerners had
not a ghost of a chance against the forces of Yuan Shi Kai, and
advising him, to keep a strict neutrality, avoid politics and keep
order. He seems to have taken this line and told me he was con-
-fining his labour to catching thieves.
On July 26th. I received a letter from him com-
-plaining of unfair newspaper criticism. Wong Sze Loong comes down to Hongkong to report on the Canton Rebellion, and makes arrangement for the cancellation of Independence. On August 10th.
at the request of Mr. Chan King Wah I went to visit him at Canton.
He informed me that things were not really as quiet as they appear- -ed to be, that everything depended on the immediate arrival at Canton of Lung Tsai Kwong, as Tong Sze Lung was trying to get him- -sels
made Governor-General. Mr. Chan was sending urgent message!
to General Lung.
On August 11th. Lung Tsai Kwong arrived at Canton, end during the subsequent fighting between the Luk Kwan and the Tsai Kwan, Mr. Chan King Wah kept order in the City and suburbs.
Several points of difference between Chan King Wah
and General Lung were reported to me by Mr. Chan:- namely giving
a post to Kwan Yan Po and allowing Ng Pei Tai to give himself up
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