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Hongkong and Shanghai Bank being proportionately deplated. This apparently sonstituted one of the reasons thich indwood Kr. Stephen to lend his sanétion and his support to Chan Lim-Pak'a adheme, another reason doubtless being

the desire, shared by the whole Chiasso mercantile community, to put an end to the extravagances of the Sun Regime.

ir. Forbes went home on leave in May, being

succeeded by Mr. de Couroy who has personally mo responsibility for the deal, but has neraly inherited it as a legacy from his predesesSOT.

That the viole affair was carefully planned from the beginning is evident from the sharter-party of the

"Day".

I have not seen it myself, but the Asting

Commissioner of Customs informe me that it contains a clause

that the wmitions were to be favoleed as mashinery.

I am told that they were astually stored in th Government warehouse at Antwerp, the Belgian authorities being presumably bookwinired by the false declaration as

to the sentents of the cases. As a matter of fact, the "Hay" arrived here with a duplicate manifest, in one of which the goods are described as arm and safety ammunition, and in the other as mashinery. The latter manifest is at present held by the Hongkong and Sharghal Bank.

The plot would doubtless have suoseeded and the

Merchant Volunteers would have obtained their arms, had

it not been that one of those who obtained an inside knowledge of the fasta resolutely refused to become a party fraud and insisted that the minitions must be correctly manifested. I may add that one other foreigner is involved in the plotş whose name I am not permitted divulge, even in the stristest confidense.

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ás regards the Permit for the import of the munitions, Chan Lim-Pak himself would have found it impossible to obtain one from the Canton authorities.

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