DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS TRADE
35, OLD QUEEN STREET
LONDON
S.W.I
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Reference No.
C.19085/1937
Telephone: Whitehall 9040
Telegrams: Advantage, Parl, London
18th November, 1937.
Dear Gent,
With reference to our conversation on the
telephone on Monday, you may care to note for record
purposes that I gave to H. K. Jones, by telephone, the
full message from his representative, Summers, which
was telegraphed in telegram No.278 from the Governor
of Hong Kong.
I also told H.K. Jones that the Governor in
Hong Kong had received instructions to afford Summers
facilities to transport the aeroplanes into Chinese
territory. His immediate reply was that he would
tell the Chinese authorities that their aeroplanes
in
were going to Hong Kong and that they should apply to
the Governor of Hong Kong for them. He went on to
ask whether the decision in regard to the assembly of
G.E.J. Gent Esq.,D.S.O.,0.B.E.,M.C.
aeroplanes /