Sir:
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON
September 14, 1936.
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I refer to the Ambassador's note of July 1, 1936,
and previous correspondence, in regard to the regulations
governing the exportation of arms, ammunition and imple-
ments of war destined to China, and have to inform you
that I am in receipt of information which would appear
to indicate that the pertinent regulations of the French
Government are still unsatisfactory if judged by the
criteria set forth in our former correspondence on this
subject.
The information which I have received
reason to believe it accurate
and I have
is to the effect that the
Yunnan Provincial Government placed an order on June 12
with the Groupe de Chine for the following:-
12 mountain guns, 75 millimetre calibre 12,000 shells for these guns
40 trench mortare, 61 millimetre calibre 10,000 shells for these mortare
4 trench ortars, 120 millimetre calibre 400 shells for these mortars
10 machine guns (Hotchkiss)
4 light tanks (Zenault), two of which are
equipped with one light machine gun each, and two of which are equipped with one gun each of 37 millimetre calibre
6 motorcycles with aide-car
6 rotorcycles with side-car, equipped with one
light machine gun each
Optical instruments for the direction of the
artillery fire
10,000 rifles (Belgian)
10,000,000 cartridges for these rifles (Belgian)
It appears that no huchao covering this proposed
shipment was obtained from the Central Government; that the
Yunnan Provincial Government has not requested a huchao for it;
and that the Groupe de Chine has not insisted that it do so,
The/