No.5. ( 8/411/1984)
Copy to:-
Jub-Legation, Air Attaché,
Qmercial Counsellor, C-in-C., Canton,
Shanghai, F.0.,
Trade Comm: Hong Kong.
31r,
BRITISH LEGATION,
PEKING.
10th January, 1935.
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I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency
herewith a translation of a memorandum from the wai Chiao
Pu enquiring whether they may be furnished with certain
details in connection with the re-exportation of munitions
of war from Hong Kong.
I presume that Your Excellency would desire me
to reply to the Vai Chiao iu communication in the sense
of paragraphs 1 and 3 of your despatch No. 17 of lay lat
last, omitting any reference to Canton and the South feat
Provinces. Before doing so, however, I shall be grateful
for your observations. I should also be glad to learn
whether the huchaos mentioned in the first paragraph of
Your Excellency's despatch above referred to are required
to be counteraigned by the Chinese Legation in the country
of origin of the goods.
I have, etc..
His Excellency
(sa)
Sir William Peel, K.G.K.G., I.B.E.,
etc.s
ats..
etc.,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief,
HƯNG TUNG.
ALEXANDER CADOGAN.