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Enclosure No. 4.5.
Translation.
(Extract from Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton, 26th February 1927)
Foreign Kinister Chen's report on the latest diplomatic
negotiations of the Nationalist Government.
(From the Chung Wah She)
Recently the Central Propaganda Committee held its 8th
meeting in the Nam Yeung Building, when Eugene Chen, the
Foreign Minister of the Nationalist Government made an important report on the latest diplomatic situation.
publish the following account of it.
A. The negotiations with England.
We now
At our last meeting our colleague Sun Chik Sang (Sun Fo) had already made a pronouncement on the attitude and opinions of the Nationalist Government on the subject of the sending by England of troops to China. Now I shall give you a further report on the same subject so that you may obtain
a better understanding of the position.
Our movement in opposing the despatch of British troops to China has won the sympathy of all the labour organisations
in England, and of the workmen in New Zealand and Australiɛ.
From the 1st to the 8th of February the British representat-
ive had two conversations with the Foreign Ministry of the
Nationalist Government. Then they met yesterday the 7th, Eugene Chen, the Foreign Minister explained to the British representative two important aspects in regard to the despatch of British troops to China.
(a) Politically. Negotiations for the settlement of the
Hankow case are now in progress, and the despatch of
British troops to China will look like a display of
force to intimidate us and be taken as an insult to
the