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Extract from a letter from Sir C. Clementi to Mr. Amery
Dated 23rd February, 1929.
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I am afraid that, as I write, the political
outlook in China is very gloomy.
Civil war has broken
out again in Shantung and will, I fear, spread very
soon to the Yangtse. It is also hard to believe that
Japan will refrain very much longer from drastic action against the Nanking Government. If she makes a demon- strationat Nanking, the Nationalist Government will immediately disappear, and we shall again have chaos in China. My only hope then would be that my little friend, Li Chai-sum, may remain in the Liang Kuang
provinces and keep South China out of the civil war.
If he does this, we might nor fare too badly in Hong
Kong after all; but, if Kwang tung is again drawn into
civil war, all the pirates, brigands and Communists
will very quickly emerge from their lurking places, and
we shall again be in a sea of trouble.
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