of military aircraft and accessories is to be regulated by
the "Ordinance governing the Importation of Aircraft and
Materials", a translation of which was forwarded to the
Foreign Office under cover of Peking Legation despatch
No. 454 of 21st March 1935 and communicated to consular
officers in China in Circular No. 26 of the same date.
The omission of sulphur and potassium chlorate, together
with nitric acid, and sulphuric acid, from the list of
materials in Article Six, and the similar omission of the
above two acids in Article Two (Four) may be also worth
noting.
4. The principal object of this revision would appear
on analysis to be to enable the Ministry of War to exercise
direct control over the issue and administration of permits
for the shipment of military material at its discretion and
without the necessity of previous reference to the National
Government.
I have, etc.
(Signed) G.P. Young.
In the absence of H.M. Ambassador.
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