Mr, Chan Lim-pak's Denial of Any Complicity in Alleged Revolutionary Plot Canton, Aug. 22.
Me. Chan Lim-pak, Commandant of the Canton Merchants' Volunteer Corps, when communicated with rogurding the recent charge of Dr Son Yat-sen that he was intriguing to overthrow his Government in Canton, to become Governor himself, fund cancel the independence Kuangtung in favour of the North, suggested by Marshal Wa Pei-ta, with whom Dr. Sun has been accusing Mr. Chan of maintaining 4 connexion—strongly denied the ininuntion. He stated that he was a business man" pure and simple and nev 'Merchants' Volunteers up their their property, re-asserting that they obtained permission to import Jarms before the consignment was seized by the very author which had issued the permit, that is, the Canton Government," The Volunteers consider this act of the Government dis honourable and un-Just. Cantonese residents are now erecting barriers on their streets to prevent possible looting. by Dr. Sun's mercenaries, who, it is said. have already received secret instructions as to what to do in case of something unfavourable happening:
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