Correspondence on the continuing anti-Communist campaign waged by Chiang Kai-shek; replies from the Hankow Government to the reparation demands presented by the individual Powers over the Nanking incident; Foreign Office's decision not to defend any Concession apart from Shanghai; the Hankow Government's attempt to improve foreign relations and revitalise the economy; negotiations between the Powers over possible sanctions to be imposed if the Nanking reparation demands were not complied with; preparations for the possible evacuation of Tientsin; the published findings of the inquest jury over the Singapore incident; plans to attack the Bogue forts and Dane Island; Chiang Kai-shek's dismissal from the Kuomintang (KMT) by the Hankow Government; report on the general conference between military and administrative leaders in Hong Kong to discuss the situation in China; report on the control of silver exchange in Shanghai; appointment of a new Government in Japan.

Correspondents include Sir Miles Lampson, the Consul Generals at Canton, Shanghai and Swatow, and the Governor of Singapore.