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Mr. Ma Soo was born in 1883 at Shanghai. He first studied in the regular Confucian school and then attended St. Joseph's College at Hongkong where he stayed until he had passed the examination for the Oxford senior. He went to Canton to teach and after staying there for a while returned to Shanghai to became Professor of History at the Nan-yang College. He taught at that College for two years. He joined Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1911 as his private secretary at Shanghai. He took part in the attack on the Kiangnan Arsenal with Chen Chi-mei during the First Revolution. After the revolution, he accompanied Dr. Sun Yat-sen to Nanking in the capacity of English Secretary. In 1912 he started the China Republican, an English daily paper, at Shanghai. The paper was closed by the authorities of the French Concession on November 6, 1913,