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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG,
5th May, 1938.
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Sir,
I have the honour to refer to my
confidential despatch of the 5th of February, 1938,
on the subject of a proposal to erect an aeroplane
factory in this Colony to which a reply is awaited.
2.
On the 2nd of May, 1938, a very similar
application was received from a representative of
the Douglas Aircraft Company, although in this case
there was little more than a formal enquiry as to
the policy of this Government should the proposal
take shape. The letter states that such a factory,
with an initial capacity to manufacture from sixty
to one hundred aeroplanes a year, would not be established for the exclusive purpose of providing the Chinese Government with military aircraft but
as a permanent enterprise to participate in the
commercial and military purchases of all countries
in this part of the world.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
W.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,
&c.
&C.,
&C.,