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Enclosure in No. 121.
Governor Sir F. May to Mr. Harcourt.
CANTON situation remains unsettled.
[Received August 8, 1913.]
The commandant has resigned the Governor-Generalship, and has been succeeded by another military officer, who is hostile to Yuan Shih-kai and to General Lung,
Lung has not advanced.
There have been some collisions between rival factions of troops, and there is some danger of riot. Two hundred Punjabis have been sent to Shameen aa reinforcements.
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No. 122.
Sir,
War Office to Foreign Office.—(Received August 15.)
War Office, August 14, 1913. WITH reference to your letter dated the 5th August, 1913, addressed to the Colonial Office, I am commanded by the Army Council to inform you that they consider the project is feasible and that sufficient troops are available at Hong Kong for the purpose.
I am to point out, however, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, that, if the move now contemplated actually takes place, only half a battalion of the infantry which are additional to the garrison of Hong Kong will remain in that place, 400 men having already been sent to Canton.
I am, &c.
E. W. D. WARD.
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No. 123.
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Mr. Alston to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 15.)
(No. 192.) (Telegraphic.) R.
Peking, August 15, 1913. GENERAL situation. Rebellion may now be considered as virtually collapsing. Considerable northern army is now facing Nanking from the opposite side of the river, few rebels remain in the town, and it is improbable that these will offer serious resistance. Shanghai- Wusung area has been completely cleared of rebel forces. There has been fighting at Chinkiang, but loyal Yangchow division is now in occupation, and southerners have apparently dispersed. Hunan has officially renounced its independence, and no fighting has apparently taken place either on Hunan-Hupei border or in the latter province. Independence of Eastern Szechuan, proclaimed by the troops at Chungking, has also been withdrawn.
General Lung has entered Canton with Kuangsi troops, and controls the situation.
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