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the result of a project to set up
factory
in Hong Kong, under the auspices of the
(a depot
Chinese Government for the assembly of
to be exported to
Sex China.
aircraft
It was considered at
the time that such a project could not be
permitted in view of the special position
of Hong Kong, but the Cabinet decision
as embodied in the telegram eventually
sent as F.0. telegram No.469 of the 18th
of November to H. M. Chargé d'Affaires at
Nanking stated that H.M.G. would be opposed
to the assembly in British territory of
aeroplanes for delivery to China.
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Considered
The meeting decided therefore
was dearable to ascertain
that it should be ascertained whether the
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Cabinet decision to prohibit the export of
aircraft to the belligerents from Hong Kong
was to be messsainee and if so, whether
this prohibition applied to all British
territory or only to Hong Kong. If the
it should be
completed
equally regarded as applicable to the new
now under
new prout now
Connderation for the establishment by private interests of a factory
decard that the prohibition of the caport of completed airerapy for the assembly, and
from Hong Kong must be maintained, buosher it was keession is not apply to Hong Kong, then
not necessary to apply a similar prohibition to Burma,
it was proposed that the Governor of Hong
Kong
eventically the manufacture, of acriraps, and as precluding, Wheir hostilitu, last, the
cafont of completed ausurajs wither of the belligerents,
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