Abstract:
Newspapers--Censorship; Chinese language--Translating into English; Tuan Ki Suey, Premier of China; Chhui Si Chay; Lee Cheong Tai; Metaphor; Politics and government--Public opinion; Wong Choy Ping; Wong Cheung Ting; Chinese Nationalist League
Subjects:
Newspapers--Censorship; Chinese language--Translating into English; Tuan Ki Suey, Premier of China; Chhui Si Chay; Lee Cheong Tai; Metaphor; Politics and government--Public opinion; Wong Choy Ping; Wong Cheung Ting; Chinese Nationalist League
Subjects Facet:
Newspapers--Censorship; Chinese language--Translating into English; Tuan Ki Suey, Premier of China; Chhui Si Chay; Lee Cheong Tai; Metaphor; Politics and government--Public opinion; Wong Choy Ping; Wong Cheung Ting; Chinese Nationalist League
Creator:
Reid, Malcolm R. J.
Contributors:
Sherwood, Percy
Date:
1918-10-11
Date searchable:
1918-10-11
Date searchable:
1918-10-11
Genre:
correspondence
Genre Facet:
correspondence
Format:
image/jpeg
Identifier:
Canadiana Identifier: Reel T-72, Image 35; Document Identifier: RG 6, E, volume 576. File 246-2, Part 2
Source:
Library and Archives Canada/Department of Secretary of State fonds/Reel T-72, Page35
Language:
English
Language Facet:
English
Rights:
© Government of Canada. Reproduced with the permission of Library and Archives Canada (2019). For rights governing the image’s use, please see the Canadiana Online Terms of Service at http://heritage.canadiana.ca/terms.
Description-Abstract:
Keywords: China Mail service
Location(s):
China; United States--San Francisco; United States; Japan; Canada
Location(s) Facet:
China; United States--San Francisco; United States; Japan; Canada
Transcript:
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I am enclosing a copy of the New Republic of 7th October and refer you to the marked article in the front page.
This article is headed "(my) charge against Tuan Ki Suoy (Premier of China)and charges him with no sense of justice, but only follow the rule of might and the grabbing of power, which he will not give up. It points out certain periods in Chinese past history when men of this sort are killed, and declares that the crime of Tuan against China is such that if all the bamboos of South China were felled and manufactured into one big broom it will not be able to sweep this man' s soul clean of crime. He is charged with stationing soldiers under Lee Cheong Tai and Chhui Si Chay at the voting booths so that the votes will go his way. It calls upon the Chinese public to obliterate this man, who is charged with depending upon the army for his power, with disturbing the country causing suffering to the people, with purchasing of munitions and borrowing of money, with depending upon foreign powers for his strength. With sending so and so as Emissaries to America to borrow money, and to Japan. He is charged with selling China by means of borrowing money from Foreign Powers who are called birds of prey, ready to swallow up China, Japan and America are specifically mentioned. His power is said to depend entirely upon foreign support, and he is accused of selling China' s 200,000,000 square miles of territory and 400,000,000 people, and winds up as follows "I wish to borrow a sword so that I can cut off the head of these men, (that is men of this nature) which I will expose for public gaze, and I will lap up his blood, eat his brain, scrape his bones, and sleep or lie upon his skin, so that I may earn the gratitude of our country." The article is under the signature of "Wong Choy Ping” (probably fictitious).
I have marked another article which states that Wong Cheung
Ting came to San Francisco by the China Mail S.S.Co' s steamer China. (This may be true or only intended to throw dust in the eyes of the authorities) The above is only a very brief resume of the article which is very long and goes into Chinese past history in order to compare Tuan Ki Suey with various malefactors. There is no question of its being inciting.
I would recommend that you have the full article translated as there are a number of references to "Foreign Powers" Which, if such a paper gets into China, may lead to anti-foreign troubles there, as the Powers are pictured as vultures and tigers ready to pounce upon China and swallow it up.
I have in my possession photos of leaders in the principal
cities of Canada, with their addresses and the position they each hold in the National Chinese League (Chinese Nationalist League).
