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Enclosure No. 4.
CONFIDENTIAL.
MEMORANDUM.
On Sunday the 28th April, at 9 a.m., I called on
General Chan Ming-shu at the Government Civil Hospital,
and had nearly an hour's conversation with him. He
asked me to thank His Excellency the Governor for his kind
invitation to him and his wife to lunch on Monday the 29th
instant, and to express his regret that owing to his
inability to leave hospital at present they could not come.
He said that he expected to be able to leave hospital in
about another ten days' time, and that as soon as he was
out he would arrange with me to call on His Excellency.
In the course of our conversation we touched
upon the political situation in Kwangtung and Kwangsi.
I said that from the newspaper accounts as well as from
other information I received, it looked as if war between
the Two Kwangs was inevitable. It was reported that
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek had instructed General Ho Chien of
Hunan to attack Kwangsi, and also that Kwangtung was
sending an expedition for the same object. like driving a dog into a corner, and Kwangsi would have
no alternative but to defend herself. General Chan Ming-
shu replied that there was still hope of war being avoided,
though he did not say upon what ground his hope was based.
General Chan said that it was absolutely
This was
necessary that General Wong Shiu-hung should declare his policy. At present General Li Chung-jen and General Pei Chung-hsi were in Kwangsi. The Nanking Government had
ordered their arrest, and by allowing them to stay in the province General Wong Shiu-hung was harbouring them in
defiance
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