Any further communication should be
addressed to :-
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY,
at the address given opposite.
The following letters and number should
be quoted:-
C.R.T. 978/35.
Telegraphic Address:
COLASTA, PARL, LONDON.
Telephone No.: Whitehall 5140.
Sir,
BOAR
COPY.
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COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND TREATIES
DEPARTMENT,
BOARD OF TRADE,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
LONDON, S.W.1.
28th March, 1935.
With reference to your letter of 11th March
(31) (F.1512/60/10), about the importation of arms into China,
I am directed by the Board of Trade to state, for the information of Secretary Sir John Simon, that they concur in the proposal that, where British arms exporters are interested, His Majesty's Minister at Peking should
informally support applications made to the Chinese Central
Government for "huchaos" for the importation of war
material where such action can properly be taken.
1 am
to suggest, however, for Sir John Simon's consideration,
that in order to avoid pressing the Central Government to grant "huchaos" in respect of war material which they would
prefer that the provincial Governments should not import and which in fact would not be imported through other channels if the "huchao" were refused for import through the British firm, the proposed instruction to Sir Alexander
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
S.K.1.
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