NO SECRET.
Copies to:
Canton No. 3bl
Peking No. G4.
Jupitto 3 0 NOV 1822
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
Sir,
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REOP
14KOV 1927
OOL.OFFICE
148
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG.
13th October, 1927.
Despite repeated protestations of loyalty
and amity towards General Li Chai-sum I am by no
means sure that General Cheung Fat-fui will not
endeavour to supplant his colleague in the control of Centon and Kuangtung, and that the programme for a duumviral control outlined in paragraph ten of
the Governor's secret despatch of the 15th September
will not turn out to be a typical War-Lord's stratagem.
Having sent his subordinates Ip Ting and Ho Lung to
Swatow to draw off the Canton garrison General Cheung
arrives to save the city from internal disorders
and promptly takes steps to see that the Swatow expeditionary force shall not return.
2. General Cheung's first step was to remove General Li's adherents from all the important offices
and set up his own men in their stead. Among the
first to go was Ir. Feng Tso-wan, who fled from the
Treasury with much the samo precipitancy as his
predecessor Mr. Ku Ying-fan, thus fulfilling the
6 forecast contained in paragraph of Sir C.Clementi's
secret despatch of the 30th September. Later reports
LIEUTMANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, H.P.,
&c.,
&c.;
&c.
are to the
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