Referring to the charge by Dr. Sun Yat-sen regarding his alleged formation of a party similar to the Fascist movement, Mr. Chan laughingly declared that the charge was absolutely baseless.
'He said: 'Many' business" men, ike himself, have more work thai the an attend to and have no time to go into active politics. Under th present conditions political service i is merce, the Tung Wa Hongkong; Hunan Gi Shaoking Association, I Canton and Shaoking Association, Wuhu; Hunan Guild, Tsinan; Two Kuang Guild, Nanking; Hunan Guild and Two Kuang Guild, Soochow; Two Kuang Guild and Chao-chou Guild, Hangchow; Chamber of Commerce, Swatow; Huichow is at Chiayin, Tapu, Foochow, Nanchang, Kiukiang and other places; and the: Press Associations at all places; all Fellow Provincial Associations in Australia, San Francisco, apore, New "York, Annam, Saigon, Siam, Bangkok, Sourabaya, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Vancouver, Penang, Rangoon, and other foreign ports.
By order of Sun Wen, the troops in Canton attacked the' Merchants?
Volunteer Corps, burning and sacking the market, massacring the people and reducing the neighbour hood of Saikuan to cinders; the streets covered with the wounded and killed and flooded by blood. Such an atrocious calamity has never been equalled in Chinese and foreign history, both ancient and modern, We are too much affected to shed tears for the fate of our native town, A resolution was unanimously passed to fix the 15th day of October as a day to remember Sun Wen's Burning and Wiping Out Our Market and Tyrannously killing the Kuangtung People; let our 30,000,000 brethren never foret this event. As you must be solicitous of our native town as ourselves, and as indignant of such fan occurrence, we expect you to uphold upright principles and save ourselves from danger and destrucing. I went also, with a strong contingent of foreign residents. What I saw is terrible, lots of the fine buildings on the Bund show marks of the flames. All shops and banks have been looted. Every: where there is disorder and misery. In the streets you can see safes and Chinese strong boxes broken and their contents looted. Soldiers are still all over the city, women are tion, to the blessing of the whole province of Kuangtung, Kuangtung Residents' Mercantile Association, Canton and Shaoking Association (the Canton Guild as locally known.) Chaochow Guild Shaoking Association Tapu Association Nanhai Guild Panyu Guild Shunteh Guild Hsiangshan Association of Shanghai, Oct. 22.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.