AP SECRET.
Copies to:-
Canton No.76.
Peking No. 23.
Singapore.
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70/26
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Sir,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG. 9th May, 1929.
65935
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With reference to my secret despatch,
dated the 18th April, I have the honour to inform
you that Mr. Chu Chao-hsin again called upon me at
Government House on the morning of the 6th May, and
had a tête-à-tête conversation with me for the best
part of an hour. He began by telling me that,
since resuming office as Commissioner for Foreign
Affairs at Canton, he had gradually been brought to
realize that civil war between the Kwangtung and
Kwangsi provinces was inevitable, and that his own
efforts at peace-making were of no avail. He had resumed office principally in order to do what in him lay to prevent civil war in South China; and, as he now knows that he cannot succeed in this, he tendered
his resignation a few days ago, both to General Chan Ming-shu, who is still at the Government Civil Hospital in Hong Kong, and to Mr. C. T. Wang at Nanking.
His
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
resignation