Enclosure No.3
127
(Extract from Kwok Man San Man, Canton. 20th. January, 1927)
Intrigue of the British in the Hankow incident revealed
Telegram ɔublished by the Foreign Minister Chen on the
15th
(From the Chung Wa She News Agency)
A Telegram dated the 15th. from Eugene Chen, the
Foreign Minister of the National Goverment, states that
normal conditions have been restored in Hankow. But the
British merchants have purposely suspended their business-
which reveals their crafty plans. The telegrams reads
as follows:-
The National Government has made it its duty to
afford proper protection to the lives and property of all
British and other foreign subjects in Hankow while under
its administration. In case of any trouble arising out of any particular circumstances, the National Government
if it fails to fulfil its duty, will make good any loss
that may be suffered.
be suffered. The British Authorities should
realize that the resumption of the Concession by the
National Government was necessitated by circumstances,
under which, unless the Concession was returned to the
Administration of the National Government, armed British
troops would have again had to shoot the Chinese and another
general striae would have been set up, paralyzing the activity of the Concession and destroying the value of the property there. Let us look into the case deeper, and take it as a movement forced by circumstances, which in more serious cases, often develop beyond the control of any man who may desire to take or has already taken precautions to check them. If we view it like this, the movement will appear as a political starting point from
which