33-1/2
NO.
CONFIDENTIAL.
opy to Peking:
Sir,
Ansel (64)
BROEIVED
19 JUN 1933
C. O. REGY
4x8
143
GOVERNment hoUSE,
HONG KONG, 17th May, 1933.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
(6) your despatch No.36 of the 25th January, 1933, on the subject
of the delivery of certain aeroplanes to Canton and to inform
you that the machines mentioned to His Majesty's Ambassador
at Washington are presumably those set out in the enclosed
These machines had on arrival in Hong Kong
schedule.
gun-mountings, gun rings, gun sights, interrupter gear and
bomb racks already built in, and, after erection at Kai Tak
Aerodrome flew to Canton with this equipment and no more.
Enquiry was made of the Far East Aviation Company whether the
machines had been exported from the United Kingdom under
licence from the Board of Trade after approval by the Chinese
Minister in London and the Company replied that
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A Nationalist Government hujao has not been applied
for, except in the case of guns and bombs because the
Board of Trade in England in the past have been
prepared to issue permits to our manufacturers to export
this equipment without reference to the Chinese Minister
in London".
9259 This statement seems at variance with the position as stated in
the letter (No.53 (F344/37/10) dated the 21st January, 1932,
from the Foreign Office to Sir Miles Lampson, a copy of which was forwarded with your Confidential despatch of the 4th February
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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,
&C.,
&C.,
&C.
1932.