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of the fall of South China'.
Enclosure 41 is from KUNG to 1123
referring to the $150,000 quoted above.
He says
he has heard that the sum of $120,000 was decided
upon for this job at the Blue Shirts meeting and
the Standing Committee's meeting of the Municipal Kuomintangs office, and that it was approved by
the Generalissimo through TAI LAP (Blue Shirt
Leader). But after so many people had had their
hands on this money only a little was left for
the two bodyguards who were to do the job - they
refused to do it.
Enclosure 47 is another small report
on the attempted assassination of SIU SIA KWAN.
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Enclosure/1123 says that the two
characters "National Affair" will be engraved on
the weapons used for the next attempt. In remarks
below this message it is written that "National
Affair" is not right, and that the secret symbols
PING ON or KAT HING (Safety or Good Luck) should
be engraved. At 54 KUNG says that characters
are not suitable and gives instructions to engrave
floral designs.
Enclosure 55 112 answers that characters
should be engraved, as the newspapers will insert
characters on implements used proving that the
right assassination squad did the job. If floral
designs were used the newspapers would not be able
to insert and therefore it would not be proved
who did the assassination. KUNG at 56 agrees
on characters 'which do not touch the edge'.
Enclosure 58 is from 1123 saying that
the characters 'PING ON KAT HING are engraved on