NO
SECRET
C.17780
17 SEP 1926
Sir,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG.
12th August, 1926.
449
Eneto, No. 1.
Pancho's No. 2.&
3.
With reference to the 5th paragraph of
my secret despatch of the 31st July, 1926, in which I mentioned the dispute between the authorities of the Kuang-tung and Fukien provinces concerning the Chiu-on district, I have the honour to forward for your information translation of an extract from the Tsun Tan Yat Po of the 10th July and of two extracts from the Chung Wa Man Po of the 3rd August. It appears that Chiu-on district is of strategic impor- tance, and that Fan-shui-kan (1⁄2 KM ), a pass in this district has a great military value, which no commander can afford to neglect Originally this district was under the jurisdiction of Fukien; but last year, when the army of General Cheung Kai- shek defeated Beneral Ch'an Kweng-meng in the valley
of the East River in Kuang-tung, the latter retreated
into the Chiu-on district, whither he was pursued by
the Cantonese Revolutionary Army, which proceeded to
occupy the district and included it within the juris-
diction of Kuang-tung. Subsequently the tupan of
LIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c..
&c.,
&c.
Fukien