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WHO'S WHO IN CHINA
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was made one of the vice-presidents of the Congress and was Canton Press representative at the Disarmament Conference in Washington 1921-22. In Canton he was many years editor-in-chief of the Canton Times and later he founded and first edited the Canton Daily News. He retired from these publications early in 1923 due to the political unrest. From 1917 to 1920 he was Director of the Intelligence Bureau of the Canton Military government. Mr. Wong has been several times tried by court-martial at Canton for his views and in May 1924, opportunity was taken by the Sun Yat-sen faction to place blame on Mr. Hin Wong for the erroneous report issued by Reuters that Sun Yat-sen was dead, to imprison him and banish him from Canton for 10 years. Outside the newspaper field, Mr. Wong is interested in the educational and social welfare activities of Canton. He was one time president of Kwangtung College, general superintendent of the Canton Government Homes for the Blind, Aged, and Infirm, and honorary inspector of prisons of the Kwangtung Bureau of Justice. Upon the organization of the Canton Municipality in 1921 he was made chief of the charity division of the Municipal Department of Education, resigning the latter part of the year. He was Boy Scout commissioner of Kwangtung and honorary inspector of prisons for the Procuratorate-General of South China. For more than four years Mr. Wong was chairman of the of the boys work committee of the Canton Y. M. C. A. Mr. Wong married Miss Chan Hon Ming of Canton in 1913, and has five children.