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Canton No./73.
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JUM! 1927
LOFFICE:
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 6th May, 1927.
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Sir,
I have the honour to confirm my telegram of
the 4th May on the trade situation. As far as can be judged amid the peals of verbiage and flashes of invective accompanying the recent coup d'etat in the Nationalist party, the moderate régime feels
confident of its ability to crush the extremists
out of existence. In Kuang-tung, at any rate, the
friends of the latter have seen the writing on the
wall. Mr. Ch'an Fu-muk (see paragraph 3 of my
secret despatch of the 22nd April) has abandoned
his seat on the new Council of Government and dis-
appeared from the province. Two versions of what
I hope may prove to have been his swan song are
Enclos Nos.1 & 2 enclosed, and you will observe that not only do
they contain the usual fulminations against British
Imperialism, but they also denounce Chinese merchants
and gentry in terms only intelligible on the supposi- tion that the speaker is a convinced Bolshevist.
Another sign of the times is the departure, with
nothing done, of the four Russian delegates to the Pan-pacific Communist Conference which was to have
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
been