His Majesty's Represen-
tatives in:-
Paris,
sir,
August
Rome,
Tokyo,
Madrid,
Tarsaw,
0810,
Stockholm, Copenhagen, Prague.
Your Excellency You
will have observed from
the correspondence enclosed in Foreign office
despatch No. 1201 of 24th June that His
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Majesty's Goverment have had under consideration
the desirability of controlling more strictly
the passage of arme through Hong Kong to China.
Cases have occurred where exporters have
obtained 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 arus transit
facilities for China, by producing a contract
with the Chinese importers for the supply of the
same goods. It is obvious that such a practice
constitutes an evasion of the Chinese
Government's regulations which have been
accepted/