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unprofitableness to themselves of continuing to resist the inevitable and will accordingly be
willing to accept the terms imposed on them by the Nationalist Party. In other words it is a case
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of the Canton-Hongkong scheme of 1925-26
being applied in Shanghai, the objective con
this occasion being the almost immediate abr¬gation
of so-called unequal treaties, the abolition of
Extrality and the rendition of all ferdign-controlled »
4.
In my opinion this is a just appreciation
of the situation and it is strikingly corroborated
by the attached report of an interview, given by
General Cheung Kai-shek at his headquarters to a foreign newspaper correspondent and published on the 24th November, General Cheung is reported to have
said that "after the successful termination of the
revolution all foreign treaties would instantly be abrogated and the foreign supervision of the Customs, the Post Office and the Salt Gabelle abolished.”
5. In view of this pronounomment I am confirmed in the opinion which I have already had the honour to lay before you that the Bolshevised. Canton Soviet will of set purpose ignore and defy treaties upto the point at which it meets with foreible resistance. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance that the Treaty Powera should without delay decide what treaty
For rights they are prepared to defend by force. exmple as regards Great Britain I presume that the Treaty of Nanking which is the title-deed of the
Colony