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connected

with all the intrigue leading up to the

first revolution in Kwang tung: and he has been

intimately connected with the Canton Government ever

since.

(2) In the early days of the revolution he drafted

an elaborate Constitution for the Kwang tung Government,

which was printed over his name in the Chinese newspapers.

(3) He had sufficient interest in Canton to get

his brother--a man of very poor character--appointed

to an important post in Swatow.

(4) He personally introduced to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs the Treasurer of the Kwang tung Province and argued in favour of Lottery Bonds which it was at that time proposed to issue. (See my confidential despatch E 40481

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(5) He told the Secretary for Chinese Affairs that the idea of the Bonde originally suggested itself in a conversation between himself and Wu Hon Man--the

then Governor-General--who happened to be paying him

a visit.

(6) He is connected by marriage with

Ch'en Shui-pak,

a newspaper editor, who was the first legal adviser to the Kwang tung Government though he possesses no legal

It is known that he was knowledge or qualification.

appointed only after Sir K'ai had himself been approached

to take the post.

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5.

In my confidential despatch of the 2nd. of April last, I referred to a newspaper called the "China Outlook", published in the English language but subsidised by the Canton Government.

Mr.A.G.M.Fletcher

was informed in May last in the most emphatic terms by the European Manager and Editor of the paper that Sir

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