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AIR MINISTRY,
London, W.C. 2.
5th January, 1925. 668
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I am commanded by the Air Council to acknowledge receipt of är. Newton's letter of the 31st December, P. 4298/15/10, forwarding a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Ambassader in Paris relative to a shipment of seroplanes from Franes to China, and to say that it appears to them that on purely technical grounds the French are justified in claiming that the Breguet 14 Af is a civil That machine if without armament or armament fittings.
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particular type has been for some time obsolete for service uses in France, and it is in fact a two-seater
It is understood that machine suitable for civil aviation.
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18 machines of this type are at present actually in use by the Siamese Government for the carrying of mails.
The Air Council, however, entirely agree that
it would be ludiorous to believe that the export of these machines to China at the present time is for any other but a military purpose. This conclusion is supported not only by the general conditions at present prevailing in China, but also by the fact that there are no civil sir lines
operating in that country.
The Under Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
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