Correspondence on the civil war, and plans for the controversial evacuation and defence of North China; negotiations over the Nanking incident; press report of a speech made by Lai Lin on the purging of the Kuomintang (KMT); manifesto issued by Chiang Kai-shek on the continuing influx of refugees from China into Hong Kong; police reports of frontier incidents; memorandum of the Hong Kong General Defence Committee's views on the report of the Trade Blockade Advisory Committee; Wang Tsing-wai's meeting with Chiang Kai-shek, Hin Han-min and Lin Ching-kan over the Nanking incident; the Japanese contribution to the defence of North China; C. C. Wu's appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Nanking Government; negotiations over Tientsin and Crown leases; continued negotiations between Lampson and Wang Tsing-wai.

Correspondents include L.S. Amery, Sir Miles Lampson, the Consul-General at Shanghai, and O'Malley.