CO129-498-24 Honorary Cadet R. Ho Tung- application for training in the Royal Tank Corps 12-11-1926 - 19-1-1927 — Page 24

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100/H/9377(S.D.2)

Sir,

WAR OFFICE,

LONDON, S.W.1.

30th October, 1926.

Mill

I am commanded by the Army Council to inform you, for the information of Secretary Sir Aust en Chamberlain, that they have received an application from Honorary Cadet R. Ho Tung, a student at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to undergo a course of instruction with the Royal Tank Corps.

I am to say that this application was refused on the grounds that the Council had already arrived at a decision not to allow foreign officers to examine the

interior mechanism of tanks and in consequence, it would

be impossible for them to undergo courses of instruction

with the Royal Tank Corps.

I am to add, however, that from correspondence

which has ensued it appears that Honorary Cadet Ho Tung,

who is the son of a British subject and might, in future,

be a person of great influence in Chira, proposes to ask

the French for this instruction if we do not accede to

his request..

I am to ask therefore that you will be good.

enough to inform me, for the information of the Army Council, if, in view of the political exigencies of the case, you would prefer that he should undergo instruction with the

Royal Tank Corps even though such a course would be contrary

to the accepted policy.

The Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office.

I am, etc.,

(Signed) H.J. CREEDY.