Show CHZNESE AT OUTS ConsulGeneral at Son Francisco is Roasted by Editor Chinese Paper San Francisco July 2gA fierce dispute dis-pute has broken out In Chinatown between be-tween Ho Yow tho Chinese Consul General and Tong 1C Chong editor of I the Chinese World and jof the Oriental and Occidental Press one of the leaders r I of the Reform association which seeks I I I to raise an army and overthrow the Empress Dowager and restore the Emperor Em-peror Kwang Hsu to the throne The j editor devoted three pages of his American paper yesterday to a scorching scorch-Ing of the ConsulGcneral and an alleged al-leged exposure of his weakness and deception I de-ception The ConsulGeneral retaliates with the explanation that the editor is leading a revolutionary party which has three thousand membersIn Chlna r town all of whom he has watched by spies and detectives Referring to a charge of Chong that Ho Yow caused his Chongs relatives in China to be imprisoned Ho Yow said his relatives were cast into prison I simply because they were in league I with him to overthrow the prcsent I dynasty We had documentary evidence evi-dence against them showing that they I were in a traitorous league that any women were Imprisoned I do not believe be-lieve A few months ago a young man named Homer Lee a graduate of the ThompsonFord university Hailed for China presumably to lead tho revolutionary revo-lutionary party Documents were discovered dis-covered to prove his mission and to connect him with this reform association associa-tion On July 17th the very next steamer after the one that had carried car-ried this young American Homer Leo took Leong Kal Chew who with Kang You Wei I Is head of the revolution away from Honolulu on his way to China The plan of Homer Lee and his Chinese schemers was to raise an army of forty thousand malcontents in the Southern treaty ports of tho empire I and march to Peking It was not long ago that we succeeded In intercepting I at Canton more than four thousand uniforms intended for this reform army They had been manufactured in the straits settlements and shipped from Singapore To Illustrate the absurdity of the claims that this is purely a patriotic reform movement It is necessary to refer re-fer to but one among many of tho clauses in their proclamation It proclaims pro-claims that any one contributing 5100 to the Reform association fund shall be made a General any one contributing I contribut-ing 1000 shall be made a Viceroy and I any one giving 10000 shall be made a prince of the royal blood |