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Enclosure No.13.
Translation
149
(Extract from Kwon Han San Man, Canton. 19th January, 1927)
Situation in British Concession. Hankow, under the
Administration of the Kuomintang.
Careful declaration by Minister Chen of his intention
to shoulder all responsibility for the protection
foreiers
(From the Chung Wa She News Agency)
A letter dated the 9th has been receivea from
Comrade Pau, our reporter at Hankow, which reads as
follows:-
The British Authorities, after nancing the
Concession over to the administration of our troops
and Police, ordered all British subjects to quit Hankow that very day. Therefore or. the 5th and 6th numbers of British subjects, male and female, went on board
the gun-boats and merchant ships there. Those who could not get on board in time, took refuge in the goaown
of the Asiatic Petroleum Company in the Japanese
Concession, and the se nad also proceeded to Shanghai by
steamers last evening.
At the same time rumours were persistent in
the Concessions that the Chinese Government would also
resume the French Concession. Therefore the American subjects in the French Concession, under the airection of the American Consul-General, al so left for Shanghai
by the steamers of the hat Wo Company.
Eugene Chen, Foreign Minister under the National Government, seeing that the foreigners were still suspicious of the situation despite the repeated assurances made by our Authorities that they would atíord proper protection for their lives and property, went personally to the British Consulate in the evening on the day
before yesterday, and assured him again carefully that
proper