CO129-520-1 Chinese situations 20-12-1929 - 27-1-1931 — Page 12

SECRET

Copy to:-

Canton No.80.

Peking No.46.

Singapore.

My Lord,

RECEIVED

9SEP 1930

100L.Oiri

15

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG

6th August, 1930.

12

Дир

70.

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In continuation of my secret despatch

of the 3rd of July, 1930, I have the honour to

inform Your Lordship that despite heavy fighting

in the North neither side seems to have gained any conspicuous advantage. Feng Yu-hsiang is still holding out at Hsu Chow on the Peking-Hankow Railway

and Lan Fêng on the Lung Hai line. Yen Hsi-shan

has succeeded in taking Tsinan and now garrisons

Tai-an and Fei Cheng on the Tientsin Pukow line. Last week Feng Yu-hsiang launched an attack along the Lung Hai line and at the same time Chiang Kai- shek attacked Yen Hsi-shan at Tai-an and Fei Cheng.

Neither offensive met with any success. Nationalist organs continue to disseminate news to the effect that General Cheung Hsueh-liang has abandoned his

attitude of strict neutrality. But there are no

indications to support this rumour.

2.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD FSSFIELD,

20.,

&c.,

&c.,

In the South, Cheung Fat-fui and the

Kwangsi