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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,

PEKING.

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