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sir,
September 6th, 1994.
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with referense to my telegram No.245 of
September 5th I have the honour to transmit to you
herewith copy of a despatch of the flat ultima which I have received from His Majesty's Consul-General,
Canton, containing an interesting review of the
circumstanses attending the shipment of arms to that sity by the Norwegian steamship "HAY". It would be
well that I should here resall the fast that Morway is
not a party to the China Arme Embargo Agreement.
The vessel arrived in Canton from Belgium on
the 10th ultimo with a large supply of arms consigned
by Alfred Bleymiller of Antwerp to the German firm of
Sander Wieler, Canton, who were acting on behalf of
the Canton Merchant Volunteers. This corps appears
to have been originally formed for the mintenan CO of order in Canton, but it is clear from ir, Giles'
despatch that the members of this organisation had become disgusted with their treatment at the hands of Deoter Sun Yat-sen and his satellites and with the abuses of his
régime and that the Commandant, one Chan Lim-pak, Compradore of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, evidently intended to secure the arms for his Corps with a view to overthrowing the present Canton administration and freeing the city of the Yunnanese troops and other hired mareenarios.
Light Honoura ble
James Ramsay MacDonald, PA.,
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FOREIGN OFFICE.