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for money to maintain himself. The Governor proposed

therefore to lend him $2,000,000. The Consul General

at Canton had pointed out the awkward position in

which this would place us, if Sun proved after all suc-

cessful, but the Governor did not consider that such

"academic" objections should be allowed to prevail,

and urged that "the utmost endeavours should be made

to destroy finally Sun's influence, as he was a danger

to civilisation."

In due course the Colonial Office were again in-

formed with reference to the above telegram that His

Majesty's Government should refrain from any interven-

tion in the factious quarrels of the Chinese military

leaders.

The next document on this subject is a telegram of

February 20, 1923 from Sir R. Stubbs with reference to

a proposal by the Singapore Authorities to suppress

Sun's political party, the Kuo Min Tang. The Governor

of Hongkong now deprecated this policy, and stated that Sun Yat Sen, who recently lunched with him, had changed

his views and desired to be on good terms with the

Colony.

On May 9th, 1923 Sir R. Stubbs telegraphed that

bun had asked for the loan of British experts to assist

In the reorganisation of certain departments in his government, and the Governor urged that there could be no reasonable objection to the proposal.

The Foreign Office, however, after consulting Sir R. Macleay, expressed the opinion that compliance with Sun's request would be regarded generally as a measure

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