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3.
I may here remark, as indicating a lack
of confidence between various Nationalist
colleagues, that a plan was made during the course
of dinner, by which all my Chinese guests were to
take a motor drive in the New Territory on the
following afternoon and return to tea with me at
Government House. Later in the evening it was,
however, intimated to me by Sir Shou-son Chow
that this plan was devised entirely in order to
deceive Mr. Chu Chao-hsin, whom Marshal Li does
not trust. It was, I was told, the Marshal's
intention to come and see me on the following
morning, in order to discuss political questions,
without letting Mr. Chu know anything about it,
and after the drive round the New Territory the
Marshal and his party would not come to tea with
me, but go straight to the house of Mr. Mok Kon-sang,
compradore of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, with
whom Marshal Li and his wife were lodging.
given to understand that Marshal Li distrusts
Mr. Chu because the latter is subordinate to
Dr. Wang Cheng-teng, the Nationalist Minister for
Foreign Affairs at Nanking, and because Dr. Wang
himself owes his position to the good offices of
the "Christian General", Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang,
whom the Kwangsi war-lords thoroughly distrust.
For this reason Marshal Li would be unwilling to
discuss any political matters of importance in the
hearing of Mr. Chu.
4.
I am
On the following morning (6th March)
Marshal Li came to Government House at 10.35 a.m.,
bringing with him Mr. Fung Chuk-man and Mr. Luk
Wan-chau.
I had with me Sir Shou-son Chow.
The
conversation