CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921 — Page 126

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In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No.

and address,

but to-

F 84/81/10.

not to any person by name,

**The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

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FOREIGN OFFICE. S.W.1.

REC na 26 JAN 21

19th January, 1921.

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sir,

I am directed by Earl Curzon of Kedleston to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch received from His Majesty's Representative at Peking reporting on political developments in the centre, south and rest of China during the period from

1920. September 21st to the end of October,

A copy of the

despatch in question was forwarded from Peking direct to His

Excellency the Governor of Hongkong.

2.

Particular attention is invited to paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of this despatch, which describe the progress of the internecine

It will be noticed that struggle in the Province of Kuangtung.

the prophecy contained in the third paragraph of Kr. Clive's despatch No.695 of October 11th, 1920, copy of which was forwarded to the Colonial Office in my letter No.F 3360/3360/10 On October 27th, of January 6th, 1921, was speedily fulfilled.

1920, the Military Government at Canton was dissolved, and Ts'ên Ch'un-hslan, the Chief of the Administrative Directors of the

Government, took to flight.

3.

It is unnecessary to labour the serious situation which Would have been created both for Leasrs Loxley and Company and also for any parties whom they might have succeeded in interes- ting in their financial schemes, had the negotiations conducted with the Kuangtung Military Goverment for six months any reference to British Authorities in China or Hongkong reached a more advanced stage, involving the actual transfer

without

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The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.