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will be forthcoming. I have, therefore, caused the promoters to be warned that, if the proceedings are confined to the declared purpose, namely, to reverential tributes to the memory of a national hero, no sort of interference by this Government need be feared, but that the denunciation of Great Britain cannot be tolerated in a British Colony and that, if the proceedings take this form, the meeting will be forcibly broken up under the regulations mentioned above.
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Events at the John G. Kerr Hospital in Canton (see paragraph 5 of my secret despatch of 4th February have marched to their inevitable conclusion. The foreign staff, feeling unable to carry on any longer with subordinates, who would neither obey an order nor allow themselves to be dismissed, endeavoured to evacuate its patients, the paying ones to their friends and the pauper ones to the Department of Public Health, with a view to closing this establishment. This, as the Chinese staff and those abetting them well know, proved quite impracticable and in the end a solution was found in the lease of the Hospital for a year to the Department of Public Health at a nominal rental. The Nationalist Government thus acquires control of yet another piece of foreign property by the simple process of allowing its subjects to make the position of the foreign owners intolerable.
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The press is full of rumours regarding a split in the Nationalist party. It is clear that there is serious friation somewhere; but, whether it is merely the result of a conflict of personal ambition or affects the fundamental aims of the Kuomintang, it is difficult to judge. The protagonists are Comrade Sun Fo and General Tseung Kai-shek
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