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(F 6848/34/10)
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
LONDON.
June 23, 1938.
Dear Nigel,
I refer to our conversation yesterday afternoon
and to your personal letter of May 19th, No. F 5183/34/10,
regarding the monthly reports on the shipment of arms passing
through Hong Kong which you have most kindly arranged be
furnished to our State Department through the American Consul
General at Hong Kong. The State Department would be grateful
if it would be possible for the Hong Kong Government to include
in these returns more detailed information regarding the actual
quantity of arms, ammunition and implements of war contained
in the cases which make up the shipments passing through Hong
Kong.
I would appreciate it if this request might be
passed on to the appropriate authorities and if a suitable
request in the premises might be made of the Hong Kong
authorities.
Nigel B. Ronald, Esq.,
Foreign Office,
S.W.1.
Yours ever,
(Signed) HERSCHEL JOHITSON.