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United Kingdom and Czechoslovakia over either).
I venture to submit that, with material as described
above, it would not serve any useful purpose to try to work
out a total, since a considerable number of countries are
involved, and all contribute unvalued items. It is worth
perhaps mentioning that in the period June-July, there are
small-arms ammunition items from Belgium the value of which
must total at least Hongkong #3 million, a similar consign-
ment from Czechoslovakia worth perhaps Hongkong #1.5 million,
and, what is of more interest for our purpose, a somewhat astonishing consignment of 22.9 million rounds of rifle etc., ammunition (over Hongkong #2 million) from Hungary. The
United States of America also feature with aeroplanes and
heavier material.
In other words all the arms exporting nations appear
to some extent, the Germans with the best of them, the least
conspicuous being France and Italy.
(Inld) P.H. G-B.
September 12th, 1938.