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Confidential.
Dear Mr. Petrie,
Shanghai to Hong Kong.
22.2.26.
Shortly after arriving in Shanghai I enquired
from Tokio whether a visit to Japan was considered
necessary. A reply came when I was in Peking to the effect that the consular officials would be glad to
see me, but that there was little to investigate. On
returning to Shanghal I proposed to pay a hurried visit
to Kobe and Tokyo, but on making enquiries I discovered
that there were unusually few sailings and that I could
not do the return trip under a fortnight. Taking all
the circumstances into consideration I came to the
conclusion that the expenditure of so much time would
not be justified and therefore arranged to start at once
on the return journey.
2. At the conclusion of my last report I
made a brief reference to an organisation which had been
started in Shanghai to oppose Bolshevik penetration in
the Far East. Some particulars regarding this
'Constitutional Defence League', as it is styled, will
be found in the enclosed newspaper cutting. Though
aimed at checking the spread of Bolshevik propaganda the
League is not aggressively anti-Red, its object in
fact is to be outwardly anti-nothing and to work on
educative and constructive lines. The League is
looking many years ahead and its programme has been
very liberally conceived. It will endeavour to re-
educate those elements among the Chinese which are most likely to be exposed to Bolshevik influences.
result it is proposed to achieve in many ways, here I
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