Here is where the humour situation starts, One Engi Paper states the Canton leader is dead and forthwith gives half a page of his virtues, his life and "romantic career" and the other diametrically opposes and declares Dr. Sun lives. But the comedy of errors does not end.
The public had two papers same evening to digest; two st to criticize and believe or disbelieve, The one stating in forcible and unmistakable terms that Dr. Sun was not dead: the other supporting its previous day's announcement that despite conflicting Friday (yesterday), the begin to weaken a little and_ask the question "Is Sun Yat-sen Dead?" but retaining their ig headlines and publishing the result of their "special representative's" investigations. The representative wires that he has been told by Mr. Eugene Chen that Dr. Sun is perfectly well after his "i disposition, which was not an il ness." "Further, the newspaper man is told by Mr. Chen that Dr. Sun. does not feel called upon to prove to anybody that he is, not dead. The corpse of Dr. Sun, neither the ing person is seen by the representative of the Hongkong paper.
The rival organ publishes at the same time an extract from the Canton "Evening Star" a new Dublieation which states, "Dr. Sun Yat-sen, indisposed for a time last week, is now able to receive a few friends on business" and relegates this to the size of an ordinary news paragraph.
"Me. Eugene Chen's indignation To-day, the "China Mail" representative's full story of his visit to Canton is given under even more sensational headlines than before. Two pressmen representing-what termed "a famous news agence: state that they were refused an interview -with Dr. Sun and. that their attempt was described by Mr. Eugene Chen ax an "impertinenes that Dr. Sun should be asked to display himself to prove that he was. alive, simply because his enemies had maliciously circulated reports that he was dead," Mr. Chen, continue the representatives, upbraided the Hongkong papers, English and vernacular for publishing false reports based upon a single report a Chen Chiung-ming paper. When the newspaper men. insisted that Dr. Sun should be interviewed, Mr. Chen is reported as replying that when Tsao Kun was reported dead some time ago the communi que issued by the Peking Ministry of Foreign Affairs accepted without question and nobody came along with demands to interview Tsao Kun to prove that he was Mr. Chen asked if a similar demand would-have been made if the same position had arisen regarding King George. Was Dr, Sun Concluding the interview, Mr. Chen said Dr.
Sun had never been ill, nor bad he been confined to bed at at the most had only been indisposed, a word which he used advisedly. for the pre ut, the matter rests.
Though reason to doubt the emphatic assurance of Mr. Eugene Chen, there is a little mystery concerning Dr. Sun's obscurity be he alive or dead, 1 ha produced a comedy of errors ar version which with ite circumstance had eclipsed in Hongkong for a week,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.