In the 1916 movement against Yuan Shih-kai, he got sadly entrapped. He became the willing tool of one of Sun Wen's political agents and allowed this agent to use not only himself but his rooms on the mission premises in a plot in which the then governor, Admiral Tang Siang-min was involve ed. I happened to be in England and only got: to know what had happened at a time when the sharp outlines of reality had been wounded by later happenings. The plot was foolish in the extreme, and apart from the agent, who has re-appeared in the province in much the same way from time to time since—he was with Chang Chin-tang on the last. night of the warfare at Siangtan when the. Chinese killed the Japanese staff of the N. K. K. by mistake for Chang Chin-tang who bore a great resemblance to him—apart from the agent, there seems to have been nobody in the plot who was of the slightest use in such matters. The plotters—really imagined tha Tang Siang-min, who not only knew all about the matter but actually had one of the aides-de-camps attend all the meetings, and kept the members supplied with funds, was going to turn over and proclaim—himself against Yuan Shik-kai by the aid of the plot. Inasmuch as Tang did turn over a little later, it was impossible even a few months after the events to say what had really happened in the plot itself.
an appointed hour, bombs were exploded in all the police stations of the city. No one was hurt by any of these bombs, so that it is fairly safe to infer that the police knew- all about the matter. But after the explosion, things went astray and the con-spiraters knew that long had not only deceived them, but that he would have to save his "face" Ly turning on his tellow-conspirators. T'here was the usual batch of executions after the usual use of torture. Li was exempted from both torture and execution but was condemned to a: life sentence. Two months later, when I'ang did turn over, the judgment was revised and he was found to be nite innocent and was set free.
hat' was the end) of Li's con nexion with the Wesleyan Methodist Church as a wor During his -imprisonment, he made good use of his opportunities of preaching to his companions in misery and there: after he did quite a good deal of work amongst prisoners.
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