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FIDEN TZAL.
British Legation,
Peking.
March 7th, 1921.
572
By Lord,
It is always difficult from Paking to give a correct
appreciation of the position in Canton. About six Wooka
ago the United States Kawl Attaché, captain Hutchina.
accompanied by Mr. Rodney Gilbert one of the ablest
Ameri san sorrespondents in China, left here on a visit to
Canton. At the same time it was announced that Mr. Stevens,
who had recently arrived in Chinx as the American Group
Representati ve on the Consortium was also going down there.
I accordingly sent a private telegram to His Majesty's
Consul-Denerel to warn him of the visit of these Ameri can s
in order that I might be kept informed as to what they were
doing in Canton, I now wielose copies of two despatches from
kr. Jamieson on the subject (the enalomirs to the second
foms the subject of a second despatch regarding the
Consortium and is not forwarded with this despatch), and two
very interesting articles by Mr. Rodney Gilbert »hich were
published in the North China Daily News.
The unabated hostility of Sun Yat Sen to Peking seems
to preclude any possibility of agreement between North and
South so long as he rmains in power. An uncertain factor
in the youth is the attitude of the Givil do varor ch'en
Chiung-ming who reconquered Kwangtung province læst Autumn,
drove out the Kwangsi militariste and made it possible for
the "safety first" party from Shanghai to return to can ton.
His relations with Sun Yat Sen are not of the best and he
apparently does not at all favour the latter's extravagant
ie Right Bonourable,
The Earl Cursos of Kedleston, K.G., 0.0.5.1.,
sta..
ate.
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