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October 17, 1896, Sun Yat-sen successfully had his seeking help letter to be delivered to his teacher James Cantile, and got saved for this reason. This is the well-known episode of "Kidnapped in London". Cantlie taught Sun at Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese. Later his son served as navel officers and continued to have connections with China. For details you may refer to p. 47 of our oral history: Records of interviews with Mr. Zheng Tianjie.
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