CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 156

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K.B.M. Consulate,

Kiung chow.

23rd January, 1926.

I have the honou: to report that Kiungchow

and Hofhow were occupied by the Canton forces on Jamary 21st.

3. The following is a mummary of the events of the past few days.

3. It has been known since the beginning of the

year that, after the evacuation of Leichow which took plase at the end of December, Cantonese guncoats and

a fleet of junks were gathering there for the invasion of Hainan, and that the only hope of resistance lay in the immediate arrival of the Horthern gunboats from Hongkong. Fruitless efforts were made by General Teng Pen-yin to induce them to come, the difficulty proba- hly being the exhorbitant squeeze demanded.

4. On the moming of Jamary 18th it was rumoured that a force five to six hundred strong, conveyed in two Cantonese gunboats and five junks, had landed dur- ing the previous night at Pochin, about 15 miles to

the East of Haihow. All the shops in Kolhow promptly put up their chutters and a proclamation issued in the

evening by General Feng Ming-chish to the effect that it was merely an affair of local bandits, which could

His Majesty's Minister,

etc., etc., eto..

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