Correspondence on the possible imposition of sanctions against the Hankow Government over the Nanking incident, and the increasing lack of support of the Seamen's Union in Hong Kong; a personal appreciation by Admiral Boyle of the situation in China and the plan to attack the Bogue forts and Dane Island; confusion over the true political and military positions of the Hankow Government and Chiang Kai-shek; the deferral of British military action against the South; inauguration of a new political council at Nanking; Eugene Chen's departure from Canton; strike by seamen protesting at anti-Union activity by the Canton Government; report on the anti-Communist coup d'etat in Canton; police reports of frontier incidents; a letter to the Chinese press from the German Consul General in Canton clarifying German colonial aspirations; arrival of Russian delegates for the Pan Pacific Conference of Trade Unions; the Kai Tak aerodrome; a ban on emigration from Kiungchow and Canton affecting labour supply in Singapore; Lampson's suggestion that British delegates be withdrawn from Hankow, and to apply sanctions against the Hankow Government independently if necessary; Clementi's proposal that the arms embargo be relaxed to supply General Li Chai-sum.

Correspondents include L.S. Amery, Sir Miles Lampson, the Consul-Generals at Shanghai, Canton and Hankow, and Admiral Boyle.