Correspondence on the negotiations for the implementation of the Washington surtaxes and the problems in dealing with the Peking and Canton governments over the issue; the intensifying of anti-foreign feeling culminating in the evacuation of the British Concession at Hankow; recommendations to strengthen defences at foreign Concessions in China, and the application of economic pressure on the Nationalist Government; reports on the economic situation in southern China; police reports on frontier incidents in the New Territories.

Correspondents include L.S. Amery, Sir Miles Lampson, the Consul Generals at Hankow, Canton and Shanghai, and the British Ambassador to Tokyo.