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Enclosure Ho.l
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sir 29 DEC 1996
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
27th November, 1926.
In my telegram of the 28th October,
I expressed the view that, if the Southerners
succeeded in their campaign in central China,
the mask would doubtless be throw off, and
we might expect an intensive attack on foreign
treaties and on the Maritime Customs. In my
telegram of the 31st October, I added that both His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton (Mr. J.F.
Brenan) and I consider it to be the deliberate policy of the Bolshevised Canton Soviet and its Russian advisers to destroy foreign treaties
and also to undermine and overthrow the Maritime
Customs, and further that I was convinced that
the Canton Soviet would of eet purpose ignore. and defy treaties up to the point at which it
met with forcible resistance.
I have now the honour to transit for you information copies of a very interesting appreciation of the political situation in cen- tral China, dated the 17th November, and prepared
HE RIGHT HONGURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&o.,
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