No SECRET.
Copy to:-
Canton No.24.
Peking No.22.
Singapore.
در می کنید 207
0079
727
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
40
5
HONG KONG
6th March, 1930.
3
My Lord,
In continuation of Sir Cecil Clementi's
secret despatch of the 27th of January, 1930, I
have the honour to inform Your Lordship that
Marshal Yen Hsi-shan has now definitely thrown
his weight into the scale against Nanking and that
following this issue of the usual series of
circular telegrams denouncing Chiang Kai-shek
hostilities have broken out along the Peking-Hankow
railway. Marshal Yen is probably the most
formidable enemy that the Central Government has
yet had to face, but like his predecessors he
suffers from two serious disadvantages:-
He has behind him no financial resources
in any way comparable to those at the command of
Nanking and is, it is to be assumed, far behind his
adversaries in military equipment.
He is also
politically in bad odour with the Kuomintang of
which he was until quite recently one of the
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
strongest
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