6360/54.
st
December, 1933.
53
sir,
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Thomas to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. F.6887/160/10
of the 13th November, forwarding the draft of a
despatch to His Majesty's Minister at Peking on the
subject of the alleged exportation of arms from the
United Kingdom to China via British Dominions and
Colonies, and to request you to inform Secretary
Sir John Simon that, as the note from the Chinese
Government of the 5th September refers only to
dependencies, he considers that no reference to the
Dominions should be made in any reply returned to
the representations made in that note.
This
course will involve the omission of the word
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,
POREIGN OFFICE.
*Dominions"