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certain quantity go direct to Swatow and other Chinese
ports.
3. Phya Srivisar in giving me the above information
added that General Moe sang hang, who had been attending
the Disarmament Conference at Geneva, had arrived in
Bangkok on his return journey. He had not seen him as yet,
and he did not say, anything as to what might be the object
of General hang's visit.
According to the
Bangkok Times the General was
given a welcome by a large gathering of the more prominent
members of the Chinese community.
5. It might be worth recording that Prince Purachatra has
expressed the opinion that the Nanking Government will
succeed in having an unofficial representative here, who
before long will become a consul and then a minister. It will
then only be a matter of time before siam becomes completely
Chinese, with the result that communism will become rampant
and angland and France will have to intervene. In His
Royal Highness's opinion Siam's independence, as it was a
few months ago, is doomed. A protectorate is the best that
can be hoped for.
6. Local Chinese papers state that Seow Hood Seng (vide
Bangkok despatch No. 107 of June 29th, 1929) is coming to
Bangkok to convey to the new Siamese Government the good
wishes of the Kwangtung Government.
next week.
They say he will arriv e
ገ. The police have ordered the local Chinese not to
halfmast their flags on the 18th instant, the anniversary
of the trouble in Manchuria, and have requested the Chairman
of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to assist them in ensuring
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