CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919 — Page 71

It is requested that in any further communication on this subject the underimentioned letter and number may be quoted, and the reply addressed to- The Under Secretary of State for India,

Political Department,

P.

2067.

Judia Qfice.

London, S.W.1.

INDIA OFFICE,

WHITEHALL,

27892

RES REC

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LONDON, S.W.1.

1919.

sir,

G 20

1 29th

1919.

This

I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to

invite reference to my letter of the 22nd April, 1919,

No.P.1859, regarding the prohibition of the export of arms

and ammunition to certain neutral destinations in the Far

bast. Since that letter was written, the attention of th

Secretary of State has been called to the correspondence between your Department and the Foreign Office, copy of which was enclosed in your letter of the 15th April,

No. C.A.T. 322/1919. He understands that the effect of

the re-transfer of cartridges, etc., from Liạt "C" to List "A" of Prohibited Exports is to restore the general position, as affecting the export of arms and summunition from the United Kingdom, to its pre-Armistice basis; and he nasumed that the special restrictions imposed in 1917 on the grant of licences for export to certain Far Eastem destinations will be maintained in Bull force. In these

circumstances Mr. Montagu agrees with the Secretary of

State for Foreign Affairs that the necessity for an Vinter-departmental Conference on the subject does not -

arise; and he has addressed th the Government of India the telegram of which a copy is enclosed.

I have the honour to be, Bir,

Your obedient Sefrant,

Secretary

Board of Trade

Gwydyr flouse

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(SD.) J.E.SIUJCKBURGII.

Whitehall, 8.7. 1..

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