CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929 — Page 150

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Copies to :-

Canton No. 22

Peking No. 6.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 1st February, 1929.

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sup (u/els) 1870. (8)

Sir,

In continuation of my secret despatch of

18th January, 1 have the honour to inform you that

Marshal Li Chai-sum arrived in Hong Kong this morning

by steamer from Shanghai. 1 sent my Aide-de-camp on

board to meet him and invited him to lunch with me.

He accepted and came with his personal staff, General

Chan Hing-wan and Mr. Tang Ka-yin; and there came to

meet him from canton Mr. Chu thao-hsin, the Commissioner

for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Li Man-yan, a much trusted

Private Secretary. I also invited to the lunch party

Sir Shouson Chow and ur. Kotewall, the Chinese members

of the Legislative Council, Mr. North, the Secretary

for Chinese Affairs, and mr. Kong Yi-sun, who is a

personal friend of Marshal Li and who is, as you are

aware from other despatches of mine, now the Superint-

endent of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong.

2. Marshal Li seemed to be in very good

spirits and glad to be back again in South China.

told me that his principal object in returning was to

spend Chinese New Year with his family and to attend at

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.CM.S. AMERY, M.P..

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