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One Enclosure
Chinese Enclosure No.3.
No.28.
and 4 copies.
copies to Chungking
and Taohienlu,
(† 563/563/10)
sir.
chengtu,
195
November 21st, 1931.
I have the honour to transmit, herewith,
the original, a copy and translation of a Chinese
letter I received on November 14th through the post.
I have delayed forwarding this letter as
I wanted to interview General Liu Yu-chiu, and to
make other enquiries before bringing the matter to
your notice.
With the assistance of Mr Hutson, of the
China Inland Miesion, who has been in the Province
twenty seven years, I have ascertained that the
T'ung I Hul is a Soolety to encourage the revival
of Buddhism: their members include a Japanese
subject, they are anti-forsign and their principal
place of meeting is in a street adjoining this
donsulate General.
Their intentions as stated in the letter
must be known outside, as their threat to assassinate
all Britons has been discussed in tea shops,
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Further a former employee of the British American
Tobanoo Company, very well know to me
a keen adherent of Buddhism called here and warned
my head messenger that the leaders of the society
had
Sir Beilby Alston, K.C.M........., G.B....
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Peking.
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