CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922 — Page 185

To Peking. No.31

and 3 nopies.

Copies to Chungking

and Tachlenlu.

sir,

Mr Hewlett to His Majesty's Minister.

H.B.4. Consulate General,

Chengtu.

September 6th, 1921.

18ǝ

In reply to your despatch No.21 (5830/21).

of August 8th last, many reasons lead me to the

conclusion that when Szechuan really becomes &

united whole, and this I do not think can be

accomplished within the next four or five years,

without external problems or internal dissensions

to provoke the ambitions or stimulate the avarine

of her leaders, the reunification of the provings

will be followed by an anti-foreign outburst.

It is not, however easy to explain more

fully than has already bean done from time to time

in despatches and reports the reasons which have

led me to this conclusion, neither do specific

indications exist quite so definite as those which

proceedel, for example, the Changsha riots, the

advent of which I foresaw although only one

and he a Norwegian, would support my

opinion that everything was working up to an

missionary,

Bir Beilby Alston, K.O.M.G.. C.B..

His Majesty's Minister,

Paking.

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