No. 15
ENCLOSURE NO. L.
CONVERSATION OF AR. WONG CHING-WEI WITH THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, HON: LR. E.R. HALLIFAX,
ON 28th OCTOBER, 1927.
(Dr. R.H. Kote wall acted as interpreter).
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THE COLONIAL SECRETARY says His Excellency the Officer Administer-
ing the Government much regrets that owing to indisposition
which necessitates his confinement to bed, he is unable to see
Mr. Jong.
1R. WONG CHING-I expresses the hope that His xcellency will
soon be restored to complete health. He says that since the
outbreak of the strike and boycott this is his first visit to
Hong Kong, and he takes the opportunity of making this call.
He goes up to Canton this evening, General Li Chai-sum having
sent representatives down to meet him.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY thanks ir. Wong for his call, and says that he welcomes this opportunity of a personal talk: the personal touch is the best means of removing misunderstandings. He
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enquirs for how long lir. Jong intends to remain in Canton.
IR. JONG replies that he cannot say for certain. He remembers
that shortly before he left Canton about fourteen months ago he exchanged informal letters with His Excellency Sir Cecil Clemen-
ti; and it was a matter of regret to him that he had to leave Canton on account of ill-health when the Colonial Secretary (r. Hallifax) and Sir Joseph Kemp visited Canton as represent- atives of the Hong Kong Government. Then he returned to China in April last, he found that the speech of Sir Austen Chamber- lain in regard to the return of Hankow to China had created a favourable impression on practically the whole Kuomintang with the exception of a few extremists. The Kuomintang wanted at the time to give wide publicity to the speech as well as to the good impression which it had created; but unfortunately the Bolshevists who were still in the Party prevented this being done. As soon as he returned to China, he and his associates worked hard to oust the Bolshevists from the party; and they
succeeded
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