53548/40.
- 2 MAR 1940
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31.1.40.
sir,
With reference to the letter from this
Department of the 31st August 1939 I am directed by
Mr. Secretary MacDonald to transmit to you a copy of a
despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong forwarding a
statement of arms and ammunition which passed through
the Colony in transit to China during the second half of
1939.
2. I am to ask that the returns in the despatch,
which are enclosed in original, may be forwarded to
feversed.
the Board of Trade after inspection with a request that
they may be returned eventually to the Colonial Office.
I am,
sir,
Your most obedient servant,
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
(Signed) G. E. J. GENT