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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
Canton No.12.
HONG KONG.
18th January, 1929.
Peking No. 3.
19 LB 1929
Singapore.
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THE RIGIT HONOURABLE
Sir,
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When I returned to Hong Kong on the 9th
January, 1929, I at once made it my chief endeavour
to inform myself correctly as to the present
political situation in South China, and I regret
very deeply to find that the position is still full
of hazard.
2. The Nanking group of the Nationalist party,
with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek at its head, has been
greatly strengthened owing to the recognition given
it by Great Britain and other European Powers, as well
as by the United States of America. There scens to
be little doubt that Marshal Chiang is manoeuvring
to become President of the Chinese Republic. At the
present time he is, of course, only President of the
Executive Council of the Nationalist Government but
he likes to be addressed as "President" tout court,
and his wife (the sister of the widow of the late
Sun Yat-sen and of ir. T.V. Sung, the Finance Ministor
at Nanking) is giving herself airs and graces which
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LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,.
&c.,
&c.
might