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Chau. This Chap Sz Tui was formed under the direction of the Government; it will detain British goods, but will not seize them.

After detention the goods will be handed over to the W.M.P.S. Association, so as to avoid friction with Great Britain. The Chap Sz Tui will detect and detain the goods secretly, but the W.M.P.S.A. will deal with them openly.

(Organisation table attached.) Revolvers are all the property of the pickets, bought without the knowledge of the Government. Rifles are issued by Government. I was in Tui No. 2, of which

Subdivision 4 is stationed Shaki.

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Ho Nam. Fong Tsun.

Tui No. 1 at Sham Chun and Nam Tau. Tui No. 3 at Kong Mun and thereabouts.

Tui No. 4 at Tai Sha T'au.

Tui No. 5 Chin Shan (Macao).

(The numbers of the three subdivisions of each main division run consecutively through all five divisions, i.e., subdivision No.

4 is the first subdivision of the second main division.)

Pay was given once a week. The Canton Government supplies $8,000.a day (provided from the House Tax), and this is sent to Then there are the pickets regularly by Police Department. subscriptions received from abroad. The total cost is $12,000 a day. Pay is now once a fortnight, and many economies have been effected and the cost is about $8,000 a day. From the 3rd and 4th tui many members have been sent to the Chap Sz Tui, under training in Fong Tsun. Probably the Chap. Sz Tui will take over the duties of the pickets from the 10th, and the pickets will be given $100 a man and disbanded. This will be pretence only; the pickets will be housed in the Fong Tsun matsheds which have been built for the purpose for $3,000. The whole policy has been dictated by the Russian Third International (Chinese characters)--one of my comrades is a member and so (Last year at a big anti- he knows. It was Borodin's order.

a crocodile always goes Christian meeting, Borodin said straight; we must not do that, we must go crooked, or we will be caught." That is the boycott policy now to dodge about.)

On the raising of the boycott, Eugene Ch'ên has had no dis- cussion with the Strike Committee. Borodin gave the order and the Nationalist Government carried it out; no objection was raised because many of the strike leaders were C.P.

The Strike Organisation had a Treasury Department. It was the duty of this Department to pay the pickets and to feed unen- ployed strikers out of the funds in hand, towards which Govern- ment gave $8,000 a day. So Shiu Ching was head of this Treasury Department.

Nobody can say the value of forfeitures made by pickets--it all went into private pockets; and. besides, goods could be passed on bribes. There is an account published showing that the

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$400,000 was received from confiscated goods by the pickets; and that all this money went in uniforms and so again. The publica- tion was strictly private.

When the pickets go across to Fong Tsun, they will be paid by the Government contribution of $8,000 a day (as now) and the proceeds of forfeitures by the W.M.P.S.A. The pickets will not be Government servants; the Chap Sz Tui will be Govern- ment servants, and will be under direct control of the Ministry of Finance of Nationalist Government. The Minister is Sung Tsz Man (Chinese characters); he dislikes the whole arrangement, but has to obey orders. He says seizing of contraband goods may be a proper duty for a Government Department, but the seizing of British goods only is not.

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The W.M.P.S.A. has now a rule against enemy goods and can seize the goods, and even the shop holding them. The Chap Sz Tui will have power to examine goods on ships, and will trace them to their shops, where the W.M.P.S.A. will deal with

them.

I was a seaman; I was a fitter on Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s ship the L Woo (Chinese characters), running between Han- kow and Shanghai. I got $46 a month, and we made much money through smuggling opium and arms. I was not allowed to continue my work-force was used at Hankow. So now I am worse off than when I was in my job. I am a Wong Po man.

Cheung Man Wong (Chinese characters) was a law student in United States of America; he returned in 8th year of the Republic (1919) and held an official high position in Shanghai. In the 9th year he organised the tit hun t'un--something very like the Ku Klux Klan in America. Cheung was arrested by the Chinese officials in Shanghai, and was imprisoned there; later he had Tsui Kwok Leung (Chinese characters) (head of police, who had him arrested) murdered. Cheung is still in Shanghai with nothing to do. He has been in "the American Concession" a translator. He was arrested for being the head of a secret society and was sent to gaol for three years by Ho Fung Lam (Chinese characters), a Kong So General. He was defeated and Cheung was released after something over two years.

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At Fong Tsun there is a big American Hospital, and in front of it was open ground. That is where the pickets' matshed is now; there is a Blind Home next to the hospital. There is a Lunatic Asylum (Chinese) about 15 minutes' walk away. American gunboat is just in front of the pickets' matshed.

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I ask I want the Hongkong Government to help in this way. permission to move my true secret department on to Shameen; about twenty men in all. I want them to be there to be clear of