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Any further communications should be addressed to :-
E ASSISTANT SECRETARY,
at the address given opposite.
The following letters and number
should be quoted :-
C.R.T. 12876/38.
Telegraphic Address:
COLASTA, PARL, LONDON.
Telephone No.: Whitehall 5140.
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND TREATIES
DEPARTMENT,
BOARD OF trade,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
LONDON, S.W.1.
24th November, 1938.
C-NOV
120.
sir,
With reference to your letter (53846/38) of the
24th October regarding the question of the establishment
in Hong Kong of a factory or factories for the assembly of
aeroplanes, I am directed by the Board of Trade to state,
for the information of Mr. Secretary MacDonald, that the
only point with which they are concerned is the desirability
of ensuring that, so far as possible, orders for industrial
plant and aircraft components should be placed in this
country.
The Board note from the letter addressed to your
Department by the Air Ministry on the 11th November that,
if the financial support available is only sufficient to
provide for the erection of one factory under British control
in the Far East, it would be preferable on strategic grounds
that the factory should be located in Burma, rather than in
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
S.W. 1.
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