CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929 — Page 47

SECRET.

Copies to:-

Canton No.116.

Peking No. 35.

Singapore.

62701

33 45

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG

19th July, 1929.

119

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Copy 7o 35

My Lord,

In continuation of my Secret despatch of

27th of June, 1929, I have the honour to inform

Your Lordship that the rumours mentioned in the

first paragraph of that despatch have since been

substantiated. By the end of June Generals Wong

Shiu-hung and Pai Chung-hsi had taken refuge in

Hanoi and their troops, in all about 20,000 men, had

nominally submitted to General Yu Tsok-p'ak.

army is directly under the command of General Lui

Wun-yim a former adherent of the Kwangsi clique.

This

2. The situation in Kwangsi is by no means

stabilised, for General Lui's forces still outnumber

by two to one the combined armies of Yeung Tang-fai

and Lei Ming-sui. Moreover, press reports state

that Yunnan province has been invaded by a faction

hostile to General Lung Yun, who has hitherto

controlled that province, and who was an adherent of

the Nanking Government, while General Chau Sai-shing,

an active supporter of the Kwang si party, has seized

the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD PASSFIELD

&c.,

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