CO129-502-7 China- general situation 4-3-1927 - 26-4-1927 — Page 63

SECRET

CABINET 27 (27)

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Extract from Conclusions of a Meeting held at 10 Downing Street, on Wednesday, April 13th, 1927, at 11.30. a.m.

CHINA

Use of

Air Forces.

2. The Secretary of State for War drew the

attention of the Cabinet to a Declaration which had

been signed in 1907, among other nations, on behalf

of this country and also on behalf of China,

forbidding the dropping of bombs from the air.

The Cabinet agreed

That the War Office should write

officially to the Foreign Office with a

view to ascertaining the views of their

Legal Adviser on this question.