Swann that the Russian detective had given information to the police that Thad prepared a lot of an British propaganda and was going to the United States with it to lecture, He told mo the Russian detective was saying things about me. On the 13th I went to the Commissioner of Police and asked him to stop the provocations against me. On the 14th I went to Bir.
Davis of the "North-China Daily News" (he's the managing director and a member of the volunteers) and told him that either the police would pay me what they owed me or I Would make a big scandal, On the 15th I saw Dr. Fischer and asked him to take the case to the Court of Consuls. He advised me to speak to Fessenden and I had several meetings. The last time I told him that, unless the police would pay me, I would make a scandal about the roulette wheels, On the 19th and 20th T saw Capt. 108 Thibet Road the struggle against the Nationalists and I ¢old him Ovsiannikoff was receiving bribes with others of the police.
On the 21st someone called me up who said he was Chang and told me the police were coming to search tay house and I had a lot of valuable documents compromising the police and others which I wrapped up and gave to an American in when I have absolute confidence. Then the day before I was arrested Aiers offered me $1,500 to leave Shanghai and not return, Allegations of "Planting"
Then Robertson and another came and searched my house and I am
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