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(F 1506/7/10)
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RECEIVED
25 MAR 1936
C. O. REGY
Dear Carstairs
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.
23rd March 1936.
Thank you for your letter No. 53548/36
of the 14th March, about falsely described consignments
of arms consigned via Hong Kong to China.
I notice that whereas you say in your
letter that you have adopted the suggestions which we made
in our official letter No. F 7941/60/10 of the 30th January
last, the draft despatch is perhaps rather imprecise in its
terms in that the Governor is only to be told "that all
"possible measures should be taken to prevent the passage of
"such falsely described consignments in the future." It
may, of course, be your intention to go rather beyond our
suggestion and to have all mis-described consignments
confiscated. If that is so, we should not wish to object,
although your despatch might perhaps give more explicit
instructions to this effect.
If, on the other hand, you wish the Governor
to give effect to our suggestions, we think that it might
C.Y. Carstairs, Esq.,
be/