Any further communication should be
addressed to :-
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY,
at the address given opposite.
The following letters and number should
be quoted:-
.T. 413/33.
Telegraphic Address : COLASTA, PARL, LONDON.
HK
63110
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND TREATIES
DEPARTMENT,
BOARD OF TRADE,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
RECEIVED
LONDON, S.W.1.
Telephone No.: Whitehall 5140.
Fi
AUG 1933
22nd August, 1933.
C. .
Sir,
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With reference to your letter of the 11th July
(No.13702/33) regarding three fighting aeroplanes which
arrived in Hong Kong in June, 1932, and were subsequently
sent on to Canton, I am directed by the Board of Trade to
state that no licence would be required for the exportation
from this country of the aeroplanes themselves, but a
licence would be required for the armament. A careful
examination of the records has failed to disclose any trace
of the issue of a licence for the armament in question.
It is, of course, possible that when the aeroplanes were
shipped the fact that they were fitted with gun mountings,
gun rings, gun sights, interrupter gear and bomb racks, was
not brought to the notice of the Customs, in which case it
would have been possible for the prohibited goods to have
been exported without a licence.
With regard to the statement by the Far Eastern
C
Aviation Company, quoted in the despatch from the Governor
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
S.W.1.