CO129-504-13 Chinese situation- request from General Li Chai-sum for assistance in obtaining arms and ammunition 27-4-1927 - 6-10-1927 — Page 36

Mr. Clutterbuck.

Mr.

Mr.

Ellis

Mr. E. J. Harding.

Sir C. Strachey

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Sir G. Grindle.

30154/1927 Hong Kong.

25

37

C. D. R 9 SEP.

Downing Street,

0

12 September, 1927

CONFIDENTIAL.

Sir,

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S/Wilson.

Mr/Ormsby-Gore.

Lord Lovat.

Mr. Amery,

DRAFT.

THE U.S. OF S.

FOREIGN OFFICE.

I am, etc., to transmit to

you, to be laid before Secretary

Sir Austen Chamberlain, the accompany

ing copy of a telegram from the

Governor of Hong Kong, reporting

that a local Chinese Metal firm of

202 tr Gov HK 3 Sept

Tel

Copy with enc. to Admy., W.6.,Air Ministry, Ctte of/I.D.

12/9127

CompLFF

good standing wishes to tender

for the supply of certain aeroplane

material required by the Canton

Government.

2.

As Sir Austen Chamberlain

is aware, the China Arms Embargo

Agreement is not regarded as applic-

able to commercial aeroplanes and

the free import of such aeroplanes

into China is therefore permitted,

although there can be no doubt that

the