Correspondence

Title

Correspondence

Shelfmark

MSS. Ind. Ocn. s. 352 / 8 / 4

Summary

Correspondence on Labour Day celebrations in Shanghai and Hankow; reports on the civil war and the continuing struggle between factions of the Nationalist party; trade situation reports; Chang Tso-lin's request for British support, and unofficial attempts to promote a rapprochement between him and Chiang Kai-shek; alleviation of the labour shortage in Singapore; continued Chinese objections to German colonial aspirations; police reports on frontier incidents; General Li Chai-sum's request for arms from Germany and Macau; Soviet intentions in China; decision not to bomb the Nanyang arsenal in retaliation for the Nanking incident; formation of a new Nationalist Government at Nanking; withdrawal of the British representative from Hankow; the question of military and naval defence in China; piracy in Bias Bay; attempts to resist contacts between Chinese Communists and Indians; the retrocession of Kwang Chow Wan by France to China; activities of the alleged Communist centre in Macau; the Canton Government's intention to pay off the 1925 Hong Kong Canton strikers; attempts by the Hankow Government to revive trade; influx of refugees from China into Hong Kong; collapse of the Pan-Pacific Labour Conference due to the coup d'etat in Canton.

Correspondents include L.S. Amery, Sir Miles Lampson, the Consul Generals at Shanghai and Canton, the Governor of Singapore, the Foreign Department at Simla, and the Admiralty.

Date

2-14 May 1927

Language

English

Physical extent

116 Leaves