To Peking. No.31
and 3 nopies.
Copies to Chungking
and Tachlenlu.
sir,
Mr Hewlett to His Majesty's Minister.
H.B.4. Consulate General,
Chengtu.
September 6th, 1921.
18ǝ
In reply to your despatch No.21 (5830/21).
of August 8th last, many reasons lead me to the
conclusion that when Szechuan really becomes &
united whole, and this I do not think can be
accomplished within the next four or five years,
without external problems or internal dissensions
to provoke the ambitions or stimulate the avarine
of her leaders, the reunification of the provings
will be followed by an anti-foreign outburst.
It is not, however easy to explain more
fully than has already bean done from time to time
in despatches and reports the reasons which have
led me to this conclusion, neither do specific
indications exist quite so definite as those which
proceedel, for example, the Changsha riots, the
advent of which I foresaw although only one
and he a Norwegian, would support my
opinion that everything was working up to an
missionary,
Bir Beilby Alston, K.O.M.G.. C.B..
His Majesty's Minister,
Paking.
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