Correspondence on question of recognition of Nationalist Government, acceptance of the Washington surtaxes, and the threat posed to the Chinese Maritime Customs by the new Customs Inspectorate; reports of an attack on General Lo Kwan by Canton Government troops under the guise of an anti-piracy campaign in the Bias Bay area; the Canton Government's reaction to the arrest of Kuomintang (KMT) agitators by the British Municipal Police in Tientsin; negotiations between the Consul General at Shanghai and Eugene Chen; an interview with Chiang Kai-shek following his defeat of Wu Pei-fu and Sun Ch'uan Fang; police reports of frontier incidents in the New Territories, and picketing of the Hong Kong Canton and Macao Steamboat Company's ships in Canton; Clementi's proposal to establish an Intelligence Service in southern China; the defence of foreign concessions in China; the British Government's attempts to avoid recognition of either Peking or Canton as the Government of China; the growing power struggle between left and right wings of the Nationalist Government, and the decline of Bolshevist influence in Canton; reports on the activities of northern warlords.

Correspondents include L.S. Amery, O'Malley, the Consul Generals at Hankow, Shanghai and Siakwan, and Sir Miles Lampson.