Correspondence on the instability of the Peking Government, under pressure from the northern war lords, in particular Wu Pei-fu; the purge of leading members of the Canton Government by Chiang Kai-shek; action taken by strike pickets against foreign shipping; appeals made by Clementi to the Willingdon Delegation to support Hong Kong University, an unofficial visit to Hong Kong by Lord Willingdon, and the Delegation's decision not to visit Canton or Hong Kong but to invest money in the proposed Canton Hankow railway scheme.

Correspondents include Sir Ronald Macleay, L.S. Amery, the Consul Generals at Canton, Shanghai and Hankow, S.P. Waterlow (Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies), and Lord Willingdon.