18
lol 2013.2.
by Ande
DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE
67 2.0.
desp. 462
for absens.
320 MAY 1935
17. S. 35
Ref 28, enclesing
funds. cqmy
was hunglen
hale from
bent of state,
(3) in 53548.
(2) in 53548.
The United States Government them-
selves drew the attention of His Majesty's
Ambassador at Washington to the fact that
consignments of arms were passing through
Hong Kong from the United States of America
to China without a Nanking huchao owing to
the development of a practice on the part of
Hong Kong importers of informing American
exporters that shipments are destined for
Hong Kong (and consequently do not require
a Nanking huchao) and of informing the Hong
Kong authorities that the shipments are destined
for China (and being therefore in transit,
apparently impose no obligation on the Hong
Kong Government to ascertain that a Nanking
huchao has been obtained). The United States
Government suggested that this loophole might
be closed by the Hong Kong Government insisting
upon the production of documents issued in the
country in which the shipment originates as
the determining factor as to what constitutes
goods in transit.
Practically simultaneously the
Hong Kong Government pointed out the existence
of the same loophole and suggested as a
remedy that the United States Government should
supply the Hong Kong Government with copies of
licences to export arms to Hong Kong, the
Hong