Mr. Caine
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Mr. Beckett 1114
Mr. Ellis
Mr. Bottomley.
Sir E. Harding.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Sir G. Grindle.
Sir Q. Davis.
Sir /S. Wilson.
Mr. Ormsby-Gore.
Lord Lovat.
Mr. Amery.
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THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
62703/29.
H.K.
33
37
Downing Street,
(2 April, 1929.
Sir,
I am etc. to refer to
tel
egrams Nos. 268 and 269 of the
30th of March from His Majesty's
Minister at Peking regarding the
seizure of arms and explosives
in transit to China at Hong Kong.
2.
Mr. Amery is advised
that there is no international
obligation forbidding Hong Kong
to allow the supply of arms to
the Chinese factions which would
override the Barcelona Convention
and therefore it would appear that
the