It may be recalled that Great Britain heartily championed the cause of Yuan Shih-kai, when the latter had aspirations to become the Emperor of China. Great Britain withdrew that support without hesitation when it suited her purpose, In 1926- 7, Great Britain was intensely anti-Chiang Kai-shek, firstly because of the anti-British boycott in Shanghai and Canton, and secondly because of Chiang's union with the Bolsheviks. Bu later Great Britain again changed her policy and befriended the Chiang regime, and that was following the bombardment of Wanhsien in 1926 and later of Nanking in the spring of 1927.
The present strained Anglo-Japanese relations are "most deplorable, and in view of the great good which can be accomplished by a rapprochement between these two nations it is the writer's sincere and fervent hope that present complications will soon be smoothed over by Great Britain' immediate cessation of assistance to the Chiang regime.
Wen Tsunc-Yao, President, Legislative Yuan, Nanking.
Nanking, June 28
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.