The Archive · 1903

: DEATH AND BURIAL OF A NOTED REBEL

Hongkong, 15th December.

Hung Chuen-fu, "Taiping General, and the chief military organiser of the Triad Society's "revolutionary movement at Canton last New Year, jhas died at the Government Civil Hospital -here and been buried in the Protestant cemetery.

His sympathisers in the revolutionary cause deemed it prudent to stay away from the faneral owing to the presence in Hongkong of emissaries of the Chinese" Government.

Detectives and police escorted General Hung to the grave—Our own correspondent.

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