No. 1632.
(F 5578/60/10)
Sir,
FOREIGN OFFICE, Dom. le
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2nd Sentember, 1938.
Your Excellency will have observed from the corresponden
enclosed in my desnatch No. 1201 of the 24th June last that His Majesty's Government have had under consideration
the desirability of controlling more strictly the massage
of arms through Hong Kong to China. Cases have occurred whop-
exporters have obtaiıed licences for the export of arms on
the representation that they were destined for Hong Kong,
and where the Hong Kong agent has subsequently obtained for
these arma transit frollities for China, by producing a
contract with the Chinese importers for the sunly of the
same poodo. It is obvious that such a practice constitutėg or
evasion for which His Majesty's Government cannot assume
responsibility of the Chinese Government's regulations whe
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The majority of cases, so far as is known, have
occurred in connexion with exnarts from the limited staten,
and the nited States Government have eroresved their desir
to cooperate with the Governor or Hong Kong in closing the
lonhole.
3. It has in consequence now been decided that, in the
care of arms exnortec from those countries which have adontid
the licence system, "in transit" Tacilities will only be
granted in Hong Kong anon production of a cony of the exor:
licence issued. The United States Government have indicated.
that they are prepared provisionally to accept thi: measure
[18 Excelleney
The Right Honourable
fir George Clerk, Giao ho lo to đ
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etc.,
etc., Paris.
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