The Archive · 1924

Dr. Sun and the Safety of Canton

Sept. 15, Ir is most charitable to believe that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was not in full possession of his faculties when he wrote the manifesto which is published on the opposite page. We have often heard him accused "of being deliberately anti-British, but we have never hitherto seen any convincing evidence of it and, considering what he owes to Great Britain and to British friends, we should not like to believe he was. Yet the manifesto is as much calculated as it the yoke of the hated outlander. The mid-autumn festival, celebrated two days ago, commemorcould well be to stir up hatred against the British. It alleges a Fascisti_ movement in Canton ates his great achievement. Tt] is held on the 15th day of the supported by British imperialism, it rakes up all sorts of slander 8th month, when the harvest of imaginary British atrocity "in moon is at the full. Legend India and elsewhere and it says that the moon cakes, which] speaks of, the just action of

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