57. Geneva tel:87- - 18/9.
58.
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59. Gamy
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2219.
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60. F.O.
5.6470/130/10
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(the copy of al cones
export of gas masks from
tel 444,
مد حمد
61. Tokyo
62. O AG-
(61.
63.0.A.G.
(Release
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P. Roges
25/9/37.
tel. 207
27/9.
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23.9.37
banking in.)
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takys 144 of 27/9.)
al.208
of
munitions.
27.9.37.
27.9.57
telephone
Yer. By sextending from D'Hendrison For
Mr. Gent.
You told me that you had been informed that
the Foreign Office, B.0.T. and Defence Departments
had decided that there was no objection in principle
W.K
to selling surplus, Government stocks of munitions
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to China as long as a state of war did not exist.
In view of this decision, the importance of
British trade in South China, and the attitude of the
0.A.G. (see 62) it appears that we should make every
effort to resist the Japanese endeavour to force us
to place an embargo on the export of arms from
Hong Kong by a threat to destroy the Canton-Kowloon
Railway.
If this railway is destroyed the Colony
will be placed in a very serious position, since the
whole