Correspondence on the proposed establishment of an independent Customs inspectorate and the imposition of additional shipping taxes by the South; Japanese policy for the future defence of North China; reports on the military and political situation in China; anti-Japanese agitation in Canton over the landing of troops in Shantung; a meeting between Lampson and Chang Tso-lin; possible visit to Japan by Lampson; a Cantonese press report on an alleged shipment of arms from Germany to Tsingtao; threatened crisis over the Tientsin salt revenue; establishment of an Intelligence organisation in Hong Kong; request by the Chinese Government coastguard administration for the release of their government vessel Suilin from Hong Kong; Chang Tso-lin's intention to assume the post of Generalissimo and to reorganise the Peking Government.

Correspondents include Sir Miles Lampson, and the Consul Generals at Shanghai and Hankow.