CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8] — Page 452

NO

SECRET

C.17780

17 SEP 1926

Sir,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG.

12th August, 1926.

449

Eneto, No. 1.

Pancho's No. 2.&

3.

With reference to the 5th paragraph of

my secret despatch of the 31st July, 1926, in which I mentioned the dispute between the authorities of the Kuang-tung and Fukien provinces concerning the Chiu-on district, I have the honour to forward for your information translation of an extract from the Tsun Tan Yat Po of the 10th July and of two extracts from the Chung Wa Man Po of the 3rd August. It appears that Chiu-on district is of strategic impor- tance, and that Fan-shui-kan (1⁄2 KM ), a pass in this district has a great military value, which no commander can afford to neglect Originally this district was under the jurisdiction of Fukien; but last year, when the army of General Cheung Kai- shek defeated Beneral Ch'an Kweng-meng in the valley

of the East River in Kuang-tung, the latter retreated

into the Chiu-on district, whither he was pursued by

the Cantonese Revolutionary Army, which proceeded to

occupy the district and included it within the juris-

diction of Kuang-tung. Subsequently the tupan of

LIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

&c..

&c.,

&c.

Fukien