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Copies to:

Canton No. 298.

Peking No. 71.

GOVERNJENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG,

27th November, 1926.

Bir,

In my telegram of the 28th October,

I expressed the view that, if the Southerner a moceeded in their cmpaign in central China, the mark would doubtless be thrown off, and

we might expect anfatendive attack on foreign

treaties and on the Maritime Customs -

In my

telegram of the 31st October, I added that both

His Majesty's Conmil-General at Canton (Kr. J.F.

Brenan) and I consider it to be the deliberate

policy of the Bolshevised Canton Soviet and its

Russian advisers to destroy foreign treatics and

also to undermine and overthrow the Haritime

Customs, and further that I was convinced that

the Canton Soviet would of set purpose ignore, and defy treaties up to the point at which it

met with forcible resi stance .

I have now the honour to trangit for

your information copies of a very interesting appreciation of the political situation in omtral China, dated the 17th November, and

prepared

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.8. AMERY, M.P.,

ko.