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CONFIDENTIAL
E.M.Consul-General, Shanghai, to E.E.Chargé d'Affaires,
Feking.
No. 19.
and 3 copies.)
sir,
H.B.. Consulate-General,
Shanghai,
January 22nd, 1923.
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In continuation of my despatch No.12 of the 17th instant,
I have the honour to report that Mr. Eugene Ch'en called again
on the 19th instant.
He stated that he had informed Dr.Sun of the result of
his interview with me on the 11th instant. Dr.Sun had
intimated that it was out of the question for him to proceed
to Feking in view of the risk of an attempt being made on his
life if he did so; he was still considering the question of
continuing his reunification pourparlers with Wu F'el-fu, but
in the meantime the situation at Canton was becoming serious
owing to the lack of a recognised leader and one of the
Generals there was already shewing signs of insubordination.
Dr. Sun was apprehensive that if he returned to Canton
without an assurance of better relations with Hongkong,
trouble might result and he might be driven to seek a
rapprochement with some other Fower.
Alluding to press reports of Dr. Sun's relations with
Monsieur Joffe, the Soviet Envoy, who arrived at Shanghai on
the 17th instant, Mr. Ch'en said that Dr. Sun held that it was
essential for China, owing to her weakness, to come to terms
with her neighbour the Soviet Government, but this did not
imply that Dr. Sun himself was a convert to Communism.
true that many important members of the Kuomintang were in
sympathy with Bolshevik ideals, but Dr. Sun's relations with
Monsieur Joffe implied nothing more than a natural desire not
R.F. Clive, Esq.,C.M.C.,
His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires,
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