CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 393

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the ex-President

at Hanchow of Shanghai seems to have thoroughly alarmed

the Chihl1 leaders.

proclaiming a separate government either

During the last fortnight small and unostentatious

movements of troops on both sides have been taking place,

and on the 24th instant, I learnt from an unofficial

Chinese source that Tsao Kun's military council had decided

to invade Chekiang and had instructed General Ch'i at Nanking to mobilise his troops for this purpose. It was further stated that two of the Kiangsu Commanders, viz., the Garrison Commander of Nanking, Kung Pang-to, and the Garrison Commander of Haichou, Pai Pao-shan- formerly connected with Tuan Chi-jui were opposing this step and were being supported in their opposition by Chang Ch'ien

the local industrial magnat 4.

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On the 25th instant, I received a call from wr. the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at "anking who was in Shanghai on a visit and who in reply to my enquiry admitted that Paot ingfu was urging Kiangsu to mobilise against Chekiang. He maintained that Chekiang was already mobilising two divisions and that the intention of their rivals was to seize Nanking as a seat which would bring prestige to the new government now attempting to assemble in Shanghai. He professed ignorance of opposition on the part of any of the Kiangsu commanders to the counter- mobilisation which had been forced on Kiangsu by the provocative action of Cheklang, though he admitted that there was an overwhelming body of opposition in commercial circles to anything in the nature of hostilities: with regard to the necessity for General Ch'i obeying such orde from Paotingfu he maintained that there was no alternative to obedience for the Kiangsu Tuchun save complete isolation. In view of the extremely precarious position of foreign trade at this port and the far reaching effectw which the extension of civil war to this district at the present time

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