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Mr. Vaughan-Fowler called this morning. I had already
had a letter from the Governor of Hong Kong invoking my good
offices on his behalf.
His main desire seemed to be that we should obtain
consent for his Aeroplane Company (of Hong Kong) to start
a regular air service between Hong Kong and Shanghai, via
the coast ports. On my saying that the Chinese were not
inclined nowadays to allow foreign companies to exploit
their avenues of communication and travel, he maintained that
under the International Air Convention, China was bound to
accord such facilities, just as we were bound to do so 'for
Chinese Companies flying to Hong Kong. He admitted however
that there was the practical difficulty that Hong Kong
applied the Air Ministry regulations which were so strict
that the Chinese could hardly comply with.
I told him I was completely unversed in international
air laws: but that if what he stated was correct and if he
could quote the articular international agreement by which China was bound, we could at least consider the possibility
of applying to Nanking and seeing the result.
oryst lise his wishes in writing and we could then study the matter more fully.
He had better
He is also apparently keen to push the sale of British
aero planes: he had just sold ten Avians to Canton and hoped to sell more. I said that the only way to do that was to push his wares like any other, and if possible to prove by practice that our stuff was the best. He replied that that
was what he hoped to be able to do.
So I
He next enquired whether the supply of aeroplanes
for civil work was contrary to the Arme Embargo. sent for and read him our Circular No. 55 to Consuls of
July 12th 1926 giving the ruling that they are not.
This
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