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will always be menaced by the implacable hostility of the powerful Chihli faction,
Furthermore he has interfered with the British salt administration in defiance of the terms of the reorganisation loan agreement.
He has also had dealings with Indian seditionists and communists and it is not unlikely that he has some sort of understanding with the Bolsheviks.
The terms of the Governor of Hong-Kong's telegram of January 6th to the Colonial Office are difficult to reconcile with the attitude he has now taken up, but I appredate the difficulties of the position and the desire of the Hong-Kong government to find a working basis with the de facto government of canton in the interests of the Colony.
Nevertheless, I do not think we should place any
reliance on Sun Yat Sen.
I communicated the contents of your telegram of the 18th instant to canton and have now received the following reply from Mr. Jamieson:-
"The request for a loan of officials did not appear
objectionable at the time when it was originally put forward
by Sun Yat Sen, 1.e. before the recent attack on him and
simultaneously with his announcement of his intention to make
Kwang-Tung into a model province. Since then, however, he
has got together something in the nature of a personal cabinet
and though he has not as yet assumed any title beyond that of
Commander-in-Chief, this personal government of his may none
the less end by becoming a regular government for the south
or even for the whole of China.
Furthermore, he has shown his disregard for agreements
by his recent action in interfering with the salt
administration.
His position too, is by no means secure and he has no
money.
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