CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927 — Page 22

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Encia No. 8

(b) A further extract from the same paper

containing a report of the inaugural meeting of

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the Kwang-tung Special District Kuomintang Department.

Encla No. 9 (c) An extract from the Wah Tsz Yat Po, Hong Kong,

of the 9th May, containing a manifesto by General

Tsin Tai-kwan, who is in command of the new Northern

expedition against the Communists in Hunan and Kuangsi.

Enclo. No. 10. (d)

10.(d) A translation from the Tsun Wan Yat Po of

the 16th May, of an explanation issued by the Political

Department of the General Staff of the National

Revolutionary Army concerning the difference between

Lenin's Communism and Dr. Sun Yat-sen's "Three

Aspects of Democracy".

Enclo No. 11(e) Comparative tables of shipping for the

first quarters of the years 1924 (pre-strike),

1926, and 1927, from which it will be seen that

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the Colony's shipping is well on the way to re- covery from the effects of the strike and boycott. 10. News is just to hand from Yunnan that General T ong Kai -tu(Tang Chi-jao) has died of chagrin at the loss of his predominance in that

27 B province (see my secret despatch of the 13th May).

no1b.

One of the prominent Chinese War Lords thus dis-

appears from the scene.

11. The proscription in Hong Kong of the Chinese Seamen's Union (see my secret despatch of the 1st June) has been cordially welcomed in this Colony and has caused no sympathetic reaction at

Canton or elsewhere.

It looks, therefore, as

if this

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