SECRET.
Copies to:
Canton No. 302.
Peking No. 73.
Sir,
30035/11
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 30th November, 1926.
123703
Gov 23
I have the honour to invite attention
to the 19th paragraph of my secret despatch of
the 27th June, in which I suggested that, as
China is no longer united under a single govern-
ment but is broken up into regional groups of
hostile War Lords, it would be necessary in future
for the protection of our interests that the
limits of consular jurisdiction in various Chinese
provinces should be altered, as circumstances may require, to conform with the regional divisions
into which China may at any time be partitioned
and further that our Consuls General and Consuls
should be in independent charge of British interests
within the limits of their consular jurisdiction.
I was subsequently informed by the local
branch of the China Committee that the Japanese
Consul General at Shanghai had subordinate to him
the Japanese Consuls throughout the area controlled
by Marshal Sun Ch'uan-fang, which then embraced five
provinces, and that authority had been delegated to
2.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. ALERY, M.P.,
&C.,
&C.,
&C.
this