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resignation has now been accepted by both, and he
will only remain in office at Canton for a few days,
pending the arrival of his successor, who will
probably be Mr. Ch'an Ch'eung-lok, now at Hoihow in
Hainan Island, but likely to arrive in Canton
within a few days' time.
Directly after the arrival of Mr. Ch'an Ch'eung-lok, Mr. Chu proposes
to withdraw to his native township, Fa Yün in
Kwangtung, where he will wait until the political
outlook is less menacing. He thought that in
about three months' time the horizon would be
clearer.
2. I asked him what the position was now as
between Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and Marshal Fêng
Yu-hsiang. He replied that war between them was
inevitable, and would probably begin soon, because
Marshal Chiang had broken his promise that Shantung
would be given to Marshal Fêng when evacuated by
the Japanese. If a struggle begins between these
two marshals, Mr Chu believes that civil war will
become general throughout China, the various minor
provincial warlords lining up on one side or the
other, or indeed taking the opportunity of wide-
spread chaos to attack each other.
3.
Mr. Chu's immediate object in visiting me
was to explain that three Kwangsi generals, namely,
Hu Tsung-to, Tao Tsun and Hsia Wei, lately in
command of the Wuhan army, which Marshal Chiang has
defeated, might be expected shortly to pass
through Hong Kong on their way to Europe. It
seems