Return for February 1938 showing War Materials for China brought to the Colony.
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TPercentage
Origin of materials
Carried by British ships Carried by Foreign ships
Materials
Total materials
in british vessels.
British
Foreign
British materials
Foreign materials
British materials
Foreign materials
Military aeroplanes
16 planes
16
16 aeroplanes
100%
planes
Aeroplane spares
6 cases
8 cases
Torpedoes
6 Nos.
6 cases
6 Nos
8 cases
14 cases
43%
6 Nos.
100%
Mountain guns
4 Nos
4 Nos
4 Nos
Nil
Spare parts for
mountain guns
Shells for mountain
guns
Armoured cars
18 cases
120 rounds
18
cases
18 cases
Nil
120 rounds
120 rounds
Nil
40
cars
40
40 cars
Nil
cars
Tanks
Bombs
50 Nos
50 Nos
50 tanks
100%
34,037
30,537
Nos
Nos
3,500 Nos
34,037 Nos
89%
Machine guns
Cartridges for rifles
2,250,000
3,199 pieces
41,439,050
148 pieces
3,051
3,199 pieces
4.6
pieces
& machine guns
rounds
rounds
2,250,000
rounds
11,782,050 rounds
29,657,000
43,689,050
rounds
32.1%
rounds
Tripods
200 pieces
200 pieces
200 pieces
Nil
Spare parts for
330
machine guns
cases
330 cases
330 cases
100
Anti aircraft guns
20
20
pieces
pieces
20 pieces
100%
Shells for anti
52,620
52,620
aircraft guns
rounds
rounds
52,620 rounds
100%
Barrels for anti
40
40
aircraft guns
40 pieces
100%
pieces
pieces
Fuses for shells
39,960
39,960
39,960 pieces
100%
pieces
pieces
Shells for anti
19,980
19,980
tank guns
rounds
rounds
19,980 rounds
100%
Shells for howitzers
2,028
2,028
2,028 rounds
100%
rounds
rounds
Spare parts for
98
projectiles
cases
98 cases
198 cases
Nil
Rifles
7,000
pieces
Pistols & revolvers
1,625
pieces
700
pieces
7,000 pieces
7,000 pieces
Nil
925 pieces
1,625 pieces
43%
Cartridges for
552,000
285,000
pistols & revolvers
rounds
rounds
T. N. T.
13,686
267,000 rounds 13,686
552,000 rounds
52%
13,66 cases
cases
Nil
cases
Smokeless powder
Tetryl
1,602
cases
280
1,602
1,602 cases
Nil
cases
280
Detonators
cases
223
280 cases
Nil
cases
Dynamite
Fuses for bombs
400 cases
24,848
pieces
24,848 pieces
cases 223 cases
400 cases
223 cases
Nil
400 cases 24,848 pieces
Nil
100%
(a) British ships carrying war materials
Glenaffric Comorin Benalder
Indira Boxhill
Benlawers Teiresias Bangalore
Average percentage by ships: 50
(b) Foreign ships carrying war materials
Franken
Gneisenau Michigan
Tonking
Vogtland
Siam
Sikiang
Vogesen.
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