COPY.
TRANSLATION.
G.R.T. 8.9.33.
MEMORANDUM
From
WAI CHIAO PU
to
H.M.Minister.
60
NANKING,
5th September 1933.
(Received 8th September)
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs present their compliments
to His Majesty's Legation and have the honour to state that it
has hitherto been the rule that shipments of foreign military ́·
equipment to China should be made under military import huchaos
issued by the Central Government and that such huchaos must be
sent to the Chinese Legation in the country of origin for
certification by endorsement before shipment may be allowed.
It has however been reported that recently cases have
occurred where foreign merchants have in the first instance
shipped such consignments of military equipment from the country
of export to dependencies thereof and subsequently transported
the same from the said dependencies to China, seeking thus to
avoid the procedure of endorsement by a Chinese Legation.
only is this practice in conflict with established regulations
but it is to be feared that brigands might derive benefit
therefrom to the jeopardy of law and order a by no means
negligible consideration.
Not
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs therefore have the honour
to request that His Majesty's Legation will duly inform His
Majesty's Government so that the latter may issue telegraphic
instructions to the governments of all British dependencies in
future/
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