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Extract from Paktoi Intelligence Report, arch Quarter 1915
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The Kieler Mission, too, has succeeded in obtaining funds- in this case, with the assent of the Hong Kong Government. It had been well known in Paktoi for some days that the Kieler Mission was in need of money, a cheque for $ 700 having been offered for $ 500 in local chopped money (its proper value would be about $ 730 in chopped dollars) and on February 20th Dr. Bradley, the local head of the Church Missionary Society, wrote to me:-
"I understand that Mr. Clausen is sending up to Hong Kong their Biblewoman irs. Poon to try and get some money. I believe they have some in the Bank, as I was asked to cash a cheque, Lirs. Poon was educated by our Mission and talks English quite well as she studied medicine in Edinburgh.
If the Mission confined its energies to mission work only,
I should not feel it right to write to you. But I do feel that as long as the Lission persists in puolishing false news it is not right for them to be supplied with money at present under the control of the British Government. Perhaps you can write or do something in Hong Kong."
The reference to "publishing false news" is directed, of course, at the Hsing-min-Pao, a translation of several numbers of which was appended to my report on local German press activi- ties,,dated December 11th last. Dr. Bradley is by no means an undiscriminating teutophobe he himself says "It took no little uring on my part for myself to write to you as I did, and it was only on account of the paper with its scurrilous attacks on our own country's doings that made me do it.... My relationship to the German Mission is well known here as one of friendliness; however, that is by the way" so I felt justified in telegraphing to the Hong Kong Government the substance of his warning, supplementing this by a despatch and ensuring that it should be read in connec- tion with my report of December 11th, which was already in the possession of the Hong Kong aurhorities. The woman, however, arrived here on March 11th with money to the full amount of her cheques, and eleven days later I received the following reply from the Colonial Secretary:-
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