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CONFIDENTIAL

II. STATEMENT OF CASES IN WHICH APPLICATIONS FOR LICENCES TO EXPORT WAR MATER AL HAVE

BEEN REFUSED WITH REASONS FOR REFUSAL DURING THE PERIOD 1ST JANUARY, 1929,

TO 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1935.

Applicant.

Material.

Destination.

Date licence refused.

Soley Armament

C. Ltd.

20,000 .303 rifles with

bayonets.

Abyssinian

2.2.29

Government.

10,000,000 rounds .303

rifle ammunition.

Reason for refusal.

Obstruction

donci metion of Abyssinian

Government to proposed Arms Traffic Convention to regulate the import of arms into Abyssinia.

Evidence that these weapons

were intended for the Afghan Government was not

forthcoming.

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B.S.A. Guns Ltd.

77

303 rifles.

France (for a

20.2.29

member of the

Afghan Legation in Paris)

B.S.A. Guns Ltd.

13 .303 rifles.

India (for the

20.2.29

Afghan Consul, Karachi).

Vickers-Armstrong

Ltd.

12 machine gun barrels.

Germany (for an arms manufac- turer).

5.9.29

Ex-enemy country.

Soley Armament

Co. Ltd.

10,000 303 machine guns

for conversion to 7.92 m.m.)

Yugo-slav

6.12.29

Government.

Le Personne & Co.

290 .455 revolvers,

450,000 rounds

455 revolver ammunition.

National

Government

10.2.30

of China.

The export of war materials

ex-Government surplus stores to Foreign Governments was regarded as undesirable at the time.

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