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Το CHINA.
(F 7028/130/10)
Cypher telegram to Mr. Blunt (Canton)
No. 14.
Foreign Office, 38th September 1937, 6.30 p.il.
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Your telegram to Peking No. 77 [of the 34th September; enquiry regarding supply of arms to Kwangsi].
I approve your language.
Should General Kan revert to
the subject, you may tell him that, while you will do all that you can to put him in touch with British munitions firms and while His Majesty's Government will place no obstacle in the way of the export of aras to Kwangsi, provided that a Central Government "huchao" is forthcoming, it is obviously impossible to press firms to sell on creuit against their will. facilities cannot of course be afforded by His Majesty's Govern- ment since munitions of war have been expressly excluded by Parliament from the scope of the port Credits Guarantee Department's activities.
Financial
Adäressed to Canton No. 14.
Repeated to Nanking No. 332,
to Peking No. 414, to Hongkong unnumbered and to Commander-in-
Chief unnumbered.