CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929 — Page 17

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Canton No.76.

Peking No. 23.

Singapore.

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Sir,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG. 9th May, 1929.

65935

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With reference to my secret despatch,

dated the 18th April, I have the honour to inform

you that Mr. Chu Chao-hsin again called upon me at

Government House on the morning of the 6th May, and

had a tête-à-tête conversation with me for the best

part of an hour. He began by telling me that,

since resuming office as Commissioner for Foreign

Affairs at Canton, he had gradually been brought to

realize that civil war between the Kwangtung and

Kwangsi provinces was inevitable, and that his own

efforts at peace-making were of no avail. He had resumed office principally in order to do what in him lay to prevent civil war in South China; and, as he now knows that he cannot succeed in this, he tendered

his resignation a few days ago, both to General Chan Ming-shu, who is still at the Government Civil Hospital in Hong Kong, and to Mr. C. T. Wang at Nanking.

His

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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

&c.,

&c.,

&c.

resignation