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FOREIGN:
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TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES:
MATHESONS, STOCK, LONDON,
MATHESONS, LONDON.
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
MANSION HOUSE 5161 (6 LINES).
B. T.
Sir,
Arkia Pe
Acke
RECEIVED 8-OCT 1937
C. O. REGY
8/10
174
80
Lombard Street.
Londen &.c. 3.
7th October, 1937.
The Department of Overseas Trade are anxious
that this country should have its share in the supply
of War Materials to the Chinese Government.
As you are aware a large quantity of these goods
are consigned to Hongkong en route for China. Messrs.
Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd. in Hongkong have formed the
impression that the Government of the Colony is not
sympathetic to the Arms business.
The objections are, I suppose, either on
sentimental grounds or because in some cases it is carried
on in an improper manner. In the case of Jardine Matheson
& Co. Ltd. the Arms business is carried on properly and
is purely incidental to the rest of their activities. If,
however, the Chinese Government feel that in their hour of
stress the Company has been disinclined to assist them in
the acquisition of War Materials it will inevitably react
unfavourably on the Company's relations with the Chinese
E.C.
Government and be detrimental to all its other trading interests.
It has always been the Company's policy to work with
the Hongkong Government and not undertake anything that is
not agreeable to it. If, therefore, H.M. Government are
anxious that British Manufacturers should have their share
Eapy to F.O.
97
Anad
D.O.T, 98
W.O