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OF
COLONIAL OFFICE
Sir,
300012.
1791
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG.
24th November, 1927.
2015
As I reported in my secret despatch
of Hovember loth, 1927, the departure of
General Li Chai-sum for Shanghai was immediately followed by a rising against his lieutenant Wong Shiu-hung, whose men were disarmed or driven out of the city after a short struggle. There was
little serious fighting and only a few casualties
are reported. General Wong himself escaped to
Hong Kong where he still remains.
2.
At the time of writing the triumvirate
Wong K'ei-cheung, Sit Ngok and Li Fuk-lam hold
the city of Canten. They have ejected their
opponents from Whampoa and the Bocca Tigris forts
and control the river as well as the Canton-Kowloon
ailway, and probably the Canton-Hankow railway as far as Shiu Kwan. Wong Shiu-hung claims to have on his side a force of Kwangsi troops concentrated
at Shiu-hing, the "Northern Expeditionary force", a
mixed body of doubtful allegiance, and the army of
Chan Tsai-t'ong in the neighbourhood of Swatow.
Further fighting is expected but has not yet begun.
Meanwhile
3.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
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