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K'ai Ho Kei, who was connected with the inauguration
of the paper and has been suspected of connection with it ever since, had taken over the management of the
paper. I told Sir K'ai on the 19th.of June last that a report had reached me that he was connected with the paper, and he emphatically denied the truth of the rumour.
Formerly Sir K'ai could be relied on for
information and advice when the Government wanted it.
6.
Now this is not so. The Secretary for Chinese Affairs
reports that since the recent rebellion against the President of the Republic, Sir K'ai has been in his office only once, when he was asked to come on some other business. Questioned as to events, Sir K,ai denied all knowledge of any details. The Secretary for Chinese Affairs says that his experience was the same during the first revolution-- Sir K'ai could never give information. Yet it was well known that he was very closely associated
with the revolutionary party.
7. During the boycott of the Low Level Tramway s Sir K'ai gave practically no assistance to the Government. I am convinced that the reason was that the boycott was supported by the Sze Yap Association which was closely associated, like himself, with the Canton Government. Sir K'ai Ho K'ad no longer represents the Chinese community, whose confidence he has lost, as he has lost that of the Government.
8.
He is not in close
touch with the Chinese mercantile community and his political bias has drawn him into close association with those whom the Chinese who have a real stake in the Colony recognise as the enemies of peace and good order, although they have not the moral courage openly to
oppose their intrigues.
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