Enclosure No. ¿.
Translation.
(Extract from Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton, 24th January, 1927.)
Management by the Nationalist Goverment of the British
Concession at Hankov after its resumption.
(From the Chung wa She News Agency)
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News from Hankow dated the 11th states that
after the outbreak of the successive serious incidents in
Hankow and Kiukiang, the British Ambassador, Mr. Lampson,
sent Mr. O'Malley, his Counsellor, to the South with his
Secretary Mr. Teichmann by the Tientsin-Pukow Railway
to investigate the real course of events at Hankow and
Kiukiɛng, and to represent him in opening negotiations with Mr. Eugene Chen, the Foreign Minister of the National-
ist Goverment. We have now learnt that on the 9th
the British Advisor left Nanking, and sailed up the Kiver
in a western direction and arrived at Hankow this morning. On receipt of a telegram to that effect Mr. Eugene Chen made all preparations for official negotiations with him
on the Hankow and Kiukiang incidents. In addition, he
sent a special dptuy Chiu Ki to proceed to Kiukiang to investigate the course of the trouble and the actual number of casualties. Un the evening of the 10th he
again issued a circular to all Associations of the masses asking them to give the Government unanimous support and to stop all Anti-British and Anti-Christian movements for the duration of negotiations so that the diplomatic
policy of the Government could be carried out in a favour- able atmosphere. We now publish the circular below:-
"Since the influence of the Nationalist Govern-
ment was extended to the former British Concession,
a fresh complexion has
been put on affairs in China.
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