TRANSLATION.
G.R.T.31.12.34.
ALDE MEMOIRE
FROM WAI CHIAO PU TO H.M. MINISTER.
Nanking,
27th December, 1984.
(Reed. 31.12.34).
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has on several occasions received oral declarations made by members of His Majesty's Legation to the effect that in the case of all munitions of war shipped abroad from Hongkong the Hongkong Government was very willing to deal with any cases of smuggling that might occur. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs have the honour to observe however that only a small amount of munitions of war is produced at Hongkong and
directly exported, but that merchants of various
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nationalities ship munitions of war to Hongkong and there unload them for storage or trans-shipment to another vessel, after which they are transported to other countries. Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be grateful if they might be furnished with a considered interpretation in reply as to whether munitions of war thus unloaded or trans-shipped at Hongkong when re-exported from Hongkong are regarded as direct exports to abroad, and whether any case of smuggling
that may occur in this connexion would also fall within the
scope of the above declaration and be dealt with
accordingly.
STAMP OF MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.