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The Commander-in-Chief, China station, H.M.9."HAWKINS" at Hongkong.
Date......17th December 1924. No.1181/661.
To.................... The Secretary of the Admiralty.
Subject...China Station General Letter Io. 1.
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Be pleased to lay before the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty the following report on the China station
in continuation of my predecessor's General Letter No.15.
The situation in China still remains unsettled.
Chang Tao Lin arrived in Tientsin early in November and
rounded up the remainder of Wu Pei Fu's troops. The se
latter had at one time threatened to give trouble but this was averted owing to the efficient action of the Police, and a system of armed patrol launches organised
by the Allied Naval Authorities to prevent transporta from
entering the Concessione.
3. Feng Yu Hsiang had estranged himmelf from Chang
Tao Lin owing to his aation in virtually imprisoning the ax Emperor, a fact which may be attributed to the
Bolshevik influence under which Feng had come. A
series of Conferences, which Sun Yat Sen was on his way
north to attend, were largely unproductive.
4. Wu Pei Pu on his arrival at Chefoo had demanded
and obtained supplies and money from the local Chinese authorities, Wu subsequently sailed from Chefoo on 11th
November and proceeded to Wuchang via Hanking.
5. On the 17th November, Tuan Chi Jui, the ola Anfu premier was appointed Chief Executive by Chang and Feng, and on the 18th it was reported that the Yangtae provinces had formed a separate government with headquarters at Wuchang, their object being to suppress
Subsequently this report appeared to
the rebellion.
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