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CHINA.
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Mr. Lampson. (Peking).
December 27th, 1925.
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8.15.p.m. December 27th, 1926. 9.00.&.m. Lecerber 28th, 1926,
No. 553. (R).
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Former diplomatic agent in Peking emissary of Feng Yunan Hsiang and kuominchun who is well known to His Majesty's legation called on me December 27th, I explained our good intentions and difficulties with which we were placed in carrying them into effect in the present state of political disunion in china. Emissary expressed his high appreciation of our atti- tude and referred repeatedly to the good impression created on the minds of his party by my visit to Hankow and His Majesty's Government's recent declaration of policy and gave the usual assurances of Feng'e desiro to be friendly and denials of his alleged pro-Bolshevik and anti-Eritish tendencies cee Peking telegram No. 517 of December 5th, 1925, I took the opportunity of impressing on him the service which Feng could render to the cause of Anglo-Grinese anity by bringing his influence to bear on Kuomintang government (to which he was represented as tendering unreservedly his political allegiance) in favour of moderation and in support of efforts we were now making to come to terms with them. This he promised gladly to do and interview was decided- ly encouraging but we rust not of course attach too much weight to statements of an omissary anxious to please. He said that Fong is now at (?Pingliang) in Kansu.
Addressed to Foreign Office No. 553.
Repeated to Tokyo, Shanghai, Hankow, Hongkong for Commander-in-Chief and Canton.
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