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Translation.
(Extract from the Kwok Man San Man, Canton, 24th May, 1927)
Speech of Mr. Ng Tsz Fai at the Conference in Nanking
in commemoration of May the 9th.
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To-day is a memorable day in the history of our Foreign Affairs. Mr. Chan, the Chairman, has related to you
what we have for remembrance. Can it be that our diplomatic
failures are limited to the 21 Articles? From the outbreak
of the Opium War up to the time of the 21 Demands, there
have been more than 10 or 20 incidents which demand our
commiseration; some of them have even caused us greater grief and disgrace than the present occasion. Let me give you an instance. At the outbreak of the Opium War in the 3rd year of Ham Fung, 60 or 70 years ago, the British took prisoner Ip Ming Sham, Viceroy of the 2 Kwongs, carried him to India and shut him up there. He was not accustomed to Indian bread and consequently died of starvation. The British then preserved his corpse with sugar (at that time chemistry was not in a very advanced state and methods for preserving bodies had not been discovered), crowned him with a hat with a button and a peacock's feather, and set him in a street in India open to the inspection of the public; and they collected payment for every subsequent inspection. Is it not a great disgrace to us that such a high official of China as a Viceroy has been thus treated by the English? But our Chinese at that time were not aware of this; even had
they been their feelings would not have been stirred by it. Our Nationals did not wake up until the 21 Demands were made on us, and since then we have had humiliation day May the 9th., the movement of May the 4th and the Commemoration of May the 30th. All these days are observed in memory of
incidents
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