Correspondence on the Nanking incident; official denial of Chiang Kai-shek's dismissal; preparations for the evacuation of foreign residents from China as anti-foreign activity continues; Lampson's request to strengthen the defences of the Peking Legation; police reports on frontier incidents; international co-operation over the Nanking incident; pirate attack on a Portuguese vessel near Canton; refutation of the Nationalists' version of events at Nanking; recognition of the Commissioner of Customs in the South, but not the Inspector General, by the Southern Government; attack on the Japanese Consulate at Hankow; Communist denouncement of Chiang Kai-shek; discussions between Lampson and the Northern General, Yang Yu-ting; looting reported in Kukiang and Nanking; continuing power struggle within the Nationalist Government; murder of a Sikh policeman by another Sikh in the Shanghai settlement; report to Clementi on Indian subversion, and the briefing given to the newly appointed Intelligence officer at Shanghai; appointment of R. F. Johnston as Commissioner at Wei-hai-wei.

Correspondents include L.S. Amery, the Consul Generals at Shanghai, Hankow, and Nanking, Sir Miles Lampson, and the Governor of Singapore.