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sir,
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12th September, 1933.
I am directed by Secretary Sir John Simon to state for
the information of the Board of Trade, that on 5th September
Fr. Tennyson Tan, of the Chinese Leg Lion called at this
Department.
8.
Yr. Tan had been instructed to say that, according to
information received by the Chinese Government, certain British merchants had been adopting the armatice of sending srms to
feat the British Dominions or Colonies, with the object of having
them reexported to Chine in much way we to evade the Chinese
rezulations in regard to the issue of an immort permit by their Legation in London. Perring that these arme might fall intɔ wrong hands, the Chinese Government reanested the cooneration of His Majesty' a Government in the nited Kingdom in preventing
this preotice.
The soratery of ɛtate would be glad to receive the
observations of the Board in this matter.
monies of this letter ere being sent to Colonial frice
and Dominions Office.
The secretery
to the Board of Trade.
sir,
Your obedient ervant,
(Sa) C. W. Orde.