is it necessary or worth while to print all
these voluminous despatches and enclosures?
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14.2.26.
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Kory) should be preitet. The memorandum for the labind chould be prepared
as practicable.
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3.3.26
No.
SECRET.
NUMBER AND DATE SNGULO DE QUOTED IN REFERENCE TO THIS LETTER
Sir,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
51
HONGKONG,
190
15th January,1926
With reference to the second
paragraph of my secret despatch of the 14th January, His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow informs me
that, so far as he knows, General Wu Pei-fu is at present concentrating on an advance to Lo-yang as a step towards Peking; that his avowed policy is to put down Communists and to head a Government in Peking: that his financial and military resources are very precarious; that he relies on
the support
of the fourteen provinces which he claims to represent; that he is in close communication with Marshal Chang Tso-lin, who still holds the three Manchurian provinces, and with Marshal Sun Ch'uan- fang, who holds the provinces at the mouth of the Yangtsze; that he is probably also in sommunication with General Chao Heng-ti, the Tupan of Hunan province; but that nothing has been heard of a contemplated attack by him on the South. I think it may be taken as practically certain that both Wu Pei-fu and Sun Ch'uan-fang have their faces turned towards Peking and are unlikely for the present to attack Kuang-tung.
As regards Mr. Sun Fo, who is now
2.
in Canton, it is not easy to forecast his policy. I
enclose
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
80..
&c.,
&c.
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