Correspondence

Title

Correspondence

Shelfmark

MSS. Ind. Ocn. s. 352 / 7 / 3

Summary

Correspondence on reports from Shanghai and Nanking on the civil war; British objections to the Kuomintang (KMT) manifesto published in The People's Tribune; the Nationalist Government's decision to censor all private foreign mail; report on the future of the International Settlement at Shanghai; Chiang Kai-shek's decision to establish the new capital at Nanking; a general strike declared in Shanghai to celebrate the Nationalist victory; denial of rumour that British troops are massing on the Burmese border of Yunan; the criticism of the Hankow agreement by the China Committee, Tientsin; the split in the Nationalist Party; successful naval punitive expedition launched against pirates in Bias Bay by Clementi; the take over of Shanghai by the Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi; threat by the Nationalist Government to take over the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company at Foochow; report from the US Consul General at Shanghai of an attack on the British Consulate at Nanking and the wounding of the British Consul.

Correspondents include L.S. Amery, Sir Miles Lampson, the Consul Generals at Shanghai and Canton, and the China Committee at Tientsin.

Date

20-24 Mar 1927

Language

English

Physical extent

63 Leaves