CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929 — Page 154

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

Canton No.12.

HONG KONG.

18th January, 1929.

Peking No. 3.

19 LB 1929

Singapore.

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THE RIGIT HONOURABLE

Sir,

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When I returned to Hong Kong on the 9th

January, 1929, I at once made it my chief endeavour

to inform myself correctly as to the present

political situation in South China, and I regret

very deeply to find that the position is still full

of hazard.

2. The Nanking group of the Nationalist party,

with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek at its head, has been

greatly strengthened owing to the recognition given

it by Great Britain and other European Powers, as well

as by the United States of America. There scens to

be little doubt that Marshal Chiang is manoeuvring

to become President of the Chinese Republic. At the

present time he is, of course, only President of the

Executive Council of the Nationalist Government but

he likes to be addressed as "President" tout court,

and his wife (the sister of the widow of the late

Sun Yat-sen and of ir. T.V. Sung, the Finance Ministor

at Nanking) is giving herself airs and graces which

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

&c.,.

&c.,

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might