CO129-512-3 Termination of Chinese arms embargo 2-3-1929 - 19-4-1929 — Page 37

Mr. Caine

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Mr. Beckett 1114

Mr. Ellis

Mr. Bottomley.

Sir E. Harding.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Sir G. Grindle.

Sir Q. Davis.

Sir /S. Wilson.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore.

Lord Lovat.

Mr. Amery.

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THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

62703/29.

H.K.

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37

Downing Street,

(2 April, 1929.

Sir,

I am etc. to refer to

tel

egrams Nos. 268 and 269 of the

30th of March from His Majesty's

Minister at Peking regarding the

seizure of arms and explosives

in transit to China at Hong Kong.

2.

Mr. Amery is advised

that there is no international

obligation forbidding Hong Kong

to allow the supply of arms to

the Chinese factions which would

override the Barcelona Convention

and therefore it would appear that

the