PREFACE

My recent detention in the Chinese Legation, 49 Portland Place, London, has excited so much interest, has brought me so many friends and has raised so many legal, technical and international points of law, that I feel I should be failing in my duty did I not place on public record, all the circumstances connected with the historical event.

I must beg the indulgence of all readers for my shortcomings in English composition, and confess that had it not been for the help rendered by a good friend, who transcribed my thoughts, I could never have ventured to appear as the Author of an English book.

SUN YAT SEN.
LONDON , 1897. 2C/6/z80PSUasG6NrhLTRDnnzBaq6+M3MPZrWyXIl7icws363KcyDMWWq5zdTrp3