CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 102

In any

further communication

his subject, please quote

No.

F 4942/194/10.

address-

nol to any person by name,

to-

The Under-Secretary of State,'

Foreign Office,

London, 8.W.1.

46480

P. 15 OCT 25

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

93

14th October,1925.

Sir,

I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, copy of a letter from Sir Robert hotung in which he advises the despatch of a special agent to China for the purpose of ascertaining the aims of the leaders of the Kuomintang and paving the way for a general

settlement.

2. 'Sir Robert Ho tung has been verbally informed that the present moment is not considered a suitable one to send a special agent to China for

the purposes indicated.

I am

Und or Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Swathlon