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Any further communication should be
addressed to:-
ASSISTANT SECRETARY,
at the address given opposite.
The following letters and number should
be quoted:-
C.R.F756/33.
Telegraphic Address: COLASTA, PARL, LONDON.
Telephone No.: Whitehall 5140.
(100)
sir,
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND TREATIES
DEPARTMENT,
BOARD OF TRADE,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
LONDON, S.W.1.
1st December, 1933.
With reference to your lotter of the 13th Noverber (F 6887/160/10) transmitting a copy of a despatch from
His Lajesty's Linister at Peking, on the subject of the
alleged exportation of ars from the United Kingdom to
China via British Domini ns and Colonies, I am directed by
the Board of Trado to state that while they concur generally
in the terms of the proposed reply they would suggest, for
the consideration of secretary Sir John Simon, that the
words "in fact" in the ninth line of the second paragraph might be replaced by "normally" and that reference might be
made at the end of that raragraph to the now arrangements
under which licences may be issued in future for the export
of aircraft armament from this court y to Hong Kong "on
consignment" (Foreign office reference F.636/160/10).
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am to add that no such licence has been issued up to the
present.
The Under-Secretary of state,
Foreign Office,
S.A.1.
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