CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929 — Page 48

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SECRET.

Copies to

Canton No.65.

Peking No.19.

Singapore.

70.

Сору

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

18th April 1929.

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Sir,

With reference to paragraph 4 of my

secret despatch, dated the 4th April, I have the

honour to inform you that Ir. Chu Chao-hsin, lately

Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at Canton and Vice-

Hinister for Foreign Affairs of the Nanking Government,

returned to Hong Kong from Shanghai on the evening of

the 12th April and called at Government House on the

morning of the following day, when he and I had a

tête-à-tête conversation.

2. He told me that he would leave that night

for Canton and resume his appointment there as

Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, He previously held

this appointment from the Branch Political Council,

which governed both Kwangtung and Kwangsi, and of

which Marshal Li Chai-sum was the head. This Branch

Political Council has now been dissolved, and Marshal

Li Chai-sum is still a prisoner at Nanking; but Dr.

Chu, so he tells me, has been re-appointed to the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL 1.C.M.S. AERY, H.P.

&C..

Rr C. ?

&C.,

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