Enclosure No. 2.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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Honourable Colonial Secretary,
Yesterday at 2 p.m. General Chan Kwing-ming
(Chen Chiung-ming) rang me up on the telephone and
said that he would like to call on me at my house at
3 p.m.
He arrived punctually at the appointed
hour, and gave me the following information which is
reproduced as near as he gave it to me.
1.
I have been to Japan on a holiday and
afterwards to Dairen and other parts of North China,
and have just returned to the Colony. I remember
informing you at the beginning of last year that it
was my belief that the Nationalists would defeat
Chang Tso-lin, not by feat of arms but with money and
propaganda; and that thereafter there would be some
semblance of unification of the country. I also
said that such unification would be more in name than
in reality, and that before long there would be a split
in Chiang Kai-shek's own camp. My prognostications
have come true.
2. With such fears agitating my mind, I
resolved to do whatever I could to bring about an understanding among the real makers of the Republic,
such as Tuan Chi-jui and Wu Pei-fu, as well as among
the moderates now in authority. I believe that I
casually mentioned this idea to you when I saw you
for a short time at the beginning of 1928, and I
also told you that I was compiling a memorandum
setting forth my views. That memorandum has been
completed,