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by which it was sought to attain them,

of armed Volunteers in Canton is 8000, with a further

20,000 in the rest of the Provins-0.

brow.glet by

5,000 more,

With the consignment

"Bay” it was hoped to arm at least

I gather that a me months ago Chan Lim-Pak represented to Mr. Donald Forbes, the loeul Agent of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, the ・ drentages that would assrue to trade 12 the extra provinsial troope that were battening on the City mé perpetunting a reiga of chaos sould be expelled and poses and order restored. He represented that this sould best be brought about Owing to the Arme through the Marekant Volunteers.

Embargo Agreement, however, it una impossible to obtain the requisite mandtione openly, and it was therefore found

Chan had always necessary to smggle them into Canton.

exercised great influenes over Mr. Forbes, and the latter apparently sonsented to submit the proposal to ir. Ağa Stephen, the Chief Manager of the Bank in Hongkong-

The situation in Canton had already smsed the

It is stated that Bark authorities serious sousern. during 1925 a sum of no less than $100,000,000 was sung out of the City in the shape of taxes both regular and irregular, military requisitions and so forth. of this mum only about $80,000,000 was expended losally, the balanse of $70,000,000 having been levied by the non- Cantonese troepe, skiefly the Yusranese, who remitted the money to their om Provinosa Canton ma thus being rapidly drained of money, the deposits in the Hongkong

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