34. Plain
Plain capies
35.
thanghai
I 13, 20,
capies of
223
36. Shanghai 226
*7.
Harkow
106
68. Kankow
10[.
39. F.O.
F.1577/1/10
11.2-88.
Lu
copy
raido
Date
of deep feam Canton railway
Fe
of 29/12;
17-20 Dec.
Copy herewith.
Done
17/2
See (36).
34. The plain language copies of the
telegrams at 13, 20 and 24 have now been
received, and in the case of
تد
(20)
a shows a considerable discrepancy, the
correct figure i cistume #izTEDEGÓ
instead of 2767 tons. to date.
?
being 1767 tons
I have brought the graph of
send amended copies of a 20 as
in the usual distribution list.
35.
This is the summary of the Military
Attaché's appreciation of the present situation
in China. He states that the Chinese Army is
irreparably smashed and the Air Force eliminated.
The only hope of the new Government lies in the
provision of facilities for implementation of
war material, and he considers that it would
be most unwise for H.M.G. to "bolster up a
dying cause". The Central Government should
therefore, he considers, receive no encouragement
or support whatever I attempt to import
war material via British territory.
#
H.M. Chargé d'Affaires does not agree with these
views, nor with those of Mr. MacKillop (at
Hankow) who thinks that the Central Government
will