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And I do hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the power of prescribing exceptions and limitations to the application of the said Joint Resolution of the 31st January, 1922, as made effective by this my proclamation issued thereunder.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this fourth day of March in the year our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and forty-sixth.
(Seal.)
By the President:
HENRY P. FLETCHER,
Acting Secretary of State.
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WARREN G. HARDING.
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CHINA
CONFIDENTIAL.
[April 18.]
SECTION 1.
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No. 1.
Sir R. Graham to the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.—(Received April 18.)
(No. 389.) My Lord,
Rome, April 12, 1922. WITH reference to my telegram No. 169 of to-day's date and to your Lordship's telegram No. 101 of the 30th March, I have the honour to transmit herewith a transla- tion of a note which I have received to-day from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs stating that the Italian Government have taken steps with a view to preventing the further sale of Italian arms and ammunition in China.
I have addressed a short note verbale to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs expressing satisfaction at this information, and stating that I am at once communicating it to your Lordship.
I have, &c.
Enclosure in No. 1.
R. GRAHAM.
Note verbale from the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs dated April 11, 1922.
(Trauslation.)
WITH reference to the note verbale of the 25th March from the British Embassy, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs has the honour to state that, notwithstanding the reservations expressed in May 1919 by the Italian representative at Peking and the obligations previously assumed for the delivery of Italian arms in China, the exportation of which had ceased from that date, the Italian Government, in considera. tion of the actual political situation in China and with the desire to co-operate with the other principal Powers for the re-establishment there of every possible guarantee of order and public tranquillity, has taken steps for no further sale of Italian arms and ammunition in China to be made to Chinese purchasers or their intermediaries, of whatever nationality the latter may be. The Italian Government begs that the British. Embassy will inform His Britannic Majesty's Government accordingly.
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