2 enclosures.
Mo. 178
(and 1 copy)
Mr. Brenan to Sir Miles Lampson.
Copies to:- 2.0. 8o. 113
Hongkong Ho. 473
watow.
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H... Consulate-General,
Canton.
November 18th, 1988.
o-enl. to
sir,
In my deepatch o. 177 of the 14th November 1
reported on a flight round Chine that la being
undertaken by General Chang Wei-chang the chief of
the Canton avistion department, and I now enoloze
a memorandum by Hr. Toughen Fowler, of the Foyal
Air Force, on recent developments in aviation in
"outh Chine.
A number of
The
2. There has been a good doel of seriel
motivity in this province recently.
French planes were purchased some months ago and
arrived in due course, but the transaction was
put through in the usual corrupt Chinere manner.
purchasing agents both Chinese and ford gn were
thoroughly dishonest end the greater part of the
purchase money went into their pocketa. hen the
consignment arrived it was found to contain second hend
machines which could not be asseubleč because many of the
parts were missing or defective. Some of these mere
eventually replaced, but General Chang confessed to Mr.
Vaughan Fowler the other day that the cheapest way out
of the muddle would be to make a bonfire of these
particular plenes in the middle of the aerodrome.
Some
of the Chinese concerned in the transection have been
imprisoned, and an applicction has been made for the
extradition of the chief offender Lam sai Shing (
His Majesty's Minister,
Peking.
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