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5.
I also enclose a translation of a report
from the Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton, of the 11th May,
1927, of the efforts of Mr. Wong Tseng-wai to
prevent the rupture between Marshal Tseung Kai-shek
and the Hankow clique. An account of Mr. Wong will
be found in paragraph 2 of my secret despatch of the
8th April.
6. The influx of refugees into the Colony
continues unabated. Between the 2nd and 15th May
the arrivals by water exceeded the departures by
11,000. It is hoped to resume the through express
service of the Kowloon-Canton Railway on the 1st
June.
7. Apart from the one salient fact that the
Nationalist forces have won another important
victory over the Northern warlords and captured the Yangtze line, the real position and prospects in
China remain as obscure as before. The latest reports
contain two ominous items, the first being that the
anti-Communist pressure in Hankow has in some way
been relaxed and the second that the seven leading
labour unions of Canton, (among them several notorious- ly communistic organizations, though the Seamen's Union is absent) have been able to hold a meeting at
which a resolution was passed guardedly, but quite clearly, charging the new regime with departure from Dr. Sun Yat Sen's principles and intimating the
author intention to work for the restoration of
organized labour to its former position of pre-
dominance in the body politic. It is also reported
that a movement is on foot in Canton to arrange a
demonstration
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