Very Much Alive and as Hostile to Peking Government and Powers as Ever Br. Perey Noel, Fi respondent of the Public Ledger" and the New York "Evening Post," interviewed Dr. Sun Yat-sen in Canton on May 20, being the first foreign correspondent to be allowed that privilege after the rumour of Dr. Dr. Sun's death had begun to appear in the press.
In describing Dr. Sun Yat-sen in his telegram to his newspapers, Mr. Noel wrote: "His replies were clear and gave good evidence of alert intelligence. He showed too much fire and purpose to be a disappointed leader, dying of a broken heart. His health is not good, but his followers. feel that the past fortnight's foreed rest has given him new strength, He complained that he was too often, misquoted and he is smarting under the indignity of the report of his death which has a special sigaificance to the Chinese mind."
Mr. Noel's interview which was sivan for the newspapers he represents cannot be reproduced here in full, but from Dr., Sun's statements to the correspondent it would appear that he is in no measure weakening in his attitude toward the Peking Government nor even to the Powers, who, he claims, are the only explanation of that Government's continued existence, The "Public Ledger Service" in the Far East has recently been reorganized, Mr. Noel taking charge with headquarters in Tokio, while Mr. George E. Sokolsky will be in charge here." In addition to the "Philadelphia Public Ledger" and the New York "Evening Post," this news service appears in manly prominent newspapers in the United States.
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