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course of their conversation that Chiang had
approached each of them with a view to forming
an alliance with the one to eliminate the other.
Upon thus discovering Chiang's duplicity, they
both lost no time in getting away from Nanking;
Feng Yu- hsiang on some excuse left for the north and Li Tsung-jên went to Shanghai.
8. I still hope against hope that civil war between Kwangtung and Kwangsi may be avoided:
but I find that outlook of prominent Chinese
in Hong Kong is very pessimistic.
9. The Chinese characters for the names
in this despatch are given on a separate sheet.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient,humble servant,
Governor &c.,