CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4] — Page 154

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January 30th, 1922.

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With reference to Your Excellency's despatch No. 3505/1915, Confidential, of the 6th instant and to my telegraphic reply of to-day respecting the prohibition of export of aircraft from Hongkong to China, I have the honour to explain the reasons which make it impossible for me to agree to any suggestion for modifying the embargo upon the importation of aircraft into China in so far as concerns British subjects.

During the last year His Majesty's Government have had occasion not only to reassert their strict adherence to the international agreement for preventing the importation of munitions of war into this country, but also on several occasions to address official representations to others for the signatory Powers regarding the need for stricter observance of the agreement with special reference to the importation of aircraft, in view of the proofs which the Chinese Government have given of their inability to prevent aeronautical material from falling into the hands of the military commanders, and of the use made thereof in recent civil warfare,

It is unfortunately true that certain

His Excellency

Sir Reginald Stubbs, I.C.M.G.,

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GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG.

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