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Eastern No.145
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Cies to:
Canton No. 148
Peking No. 35
Sir,
HONGKONG.
100
2261 VOL
ว
8.
47
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
14th April, 1927.
30003/27
F.c. (34)
I have the honour to confirm my telegram
*
of the 14th April. At the moment,apart from the
the continued suspense as to action which Great Britain, the United States of America, France, Japan and
Italy will take with respect to the Nanking outrages, all other issues are overshadowed by the struggle
between the extreme and moderate sections of the
Nationalist party. If the extremists win the day,
it will mean that the Reds have succeeded in creating
a solid belt of Bolshevism from the Baltic across
Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, and Kansu into Southern
China, and they will then be ready and able to move
further south through Indo-China to Malaya along the
flank of India. Despite thousands of years of culture
China contains, as did France in 1789, and Russia in
1917, masses of savagely illiterate and indigent
"have-nots", to whom any doctrine of confiscation
makes an irresistible appeal. Tomorrow's consequences
are nothing to such. For them sufficient unto the
day is the loot thereof. Neither is any comfort to
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
be