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in Peking No.
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Consul Fastes to Mr. R. H. Clive, C.M.G.
H. B. M. Consulate,
AMOY,
Copy.
No. 13.
Confidential.
February 27th, 1923.
Sone weeks ago, after the close of a Chinese service
in the Church of the English Presbyterian Hission at Ch'tian-
show, two respectably-dressed Chinese, who were not known
to any of the worshippers, distributed amongst the latter, on leaving the church, a Chinese pamphlet in the simplest colloquial language, which proved on inspection to be of a
violently aggressive Communist character, A copy of the
pamphlet was brought to me in due course by the Amoy repre-
sentative of the Mission, whom I requested to cause further
enquiries to be made as to its origin.
The result of these enquiries, which has now been
furnished to me, is as follows, A few days prior to the
distribution of the pamphlet, an officer named Chang T'len-
ming, alias Chang Chung-ta, a native of Klangsi from the
headquarters of Ho Haüeh-chu, one of the Cantonese leaders, with Hall Ch'ung-chih, of the expedition launched into Fukien
by Sun Yat-sen in the autumn of last year, entered a print-
ing establishment run by a Chinese Christian in the English Presbyterian Mission, and peremptorily ordered the proprietor
R. H. Clive, Esquire, C.M.G.,
c.
H. B. M. Chargé d'Affaires,
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