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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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WASHINGTON
April 19, 1935
Excellency:
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
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of your note No. 76 of March 27, 1935, with further reference to the procedure now in force in Hong Kong
in respect bo the transshipment of arms to China.
greatly appreciate the cooperative attitude of your Government and of the Government of Hong Kong in dealing with this matter, and I have given careful consideration
to the suggestion of the Government of Hong Kong that
this Government furnish it with copies of all export
licenses issued in respect to shipments of arms to Hong
Kong. I am disposed to view this suggestion with favor,
but before acting upon it I feel that it is necessary for
me to have further information in regard to the procedure
which the Government of Hong Kong contemplates.
Your several recent notes on the subject of
restrictions upon the exportation of arms and munitions
to China make it evident that your Government and this
Government have the same end in view. It is clear
that we both desire that such restrictions upon the
exportation of arms and munitions to China may be placed
in effect by the Governments of all the important arma
manufacturing/
His Excellency
The Honorable Sir Ronald Lindsay,
P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C.B., C.V.O.,
British Ambassador