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private friend.
Kay for Shanghai.
Mr. Tang Shao-yi left on the 14th
He had intended to travel to the
United States of America, in order to visit President
Hoover, whom he knows as a personal friend; but, in. view of the renewed outbreak of civil war in China, he
told me that he might change his plans.
2. On the 15th lay, there arrived in this Colony two Chinese cruisers, the C..3. "Fai-yung" and
the C.R.S."in-swei". These cruisers came to Tong
Kong from Shanghai and, I understand, compose the training squadron of the Chinese Tavy. On the 17th lay, Rear-Admiral H.Y. Ch'n, accompanied by Captain S. T. Wang commanding the C...G. "Hai-yung", and Coptain Y.C. Tin, commanding the C... "Yin-swei", paid a ceremonial cell upon re, which I returned immediately fterwards. I asked him how long he proposed to remain in Hong Kong. He was uncertain, but said he would probably be here for several days. I do not know what the purpose of his visit to Hong Kong may be, and he shows no signs of joining overtly in the civil war between Kwangtung and Kwangsi; but I have no doubt that, according to the usual traditions of the Chinese Navy, he will sell the services of his ships to one side or the other at a high price. I took the opportunity of handing him a nemorandum,concerning a further piracy, which is now being plotted by the Bias Bay gang, and I asked him to get in touch with the Chinese wireless station at Au-tau in Dies Bay, with a view to taking measures to obviate any piratical outrage. He said he would try
to
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