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supplying Amanulla with arms and ammunition in order to
enable him to recover the throne. He was informed that
international considerations prevented the interference
by His Majesty's Government in the internal affairs of
Afghanistan by giving assistance in the form of arms to one
or other of the parties when there was no generally
acknowledged ruler or government in the country.
4. Subsequently the Afghan Legation informed us that
the Afghan Minister had been instructed by ex-King Amanulla
to proceed to Herat and that he wished to purchase and take
with him a quantity of rifles and ammunition. The Legation
were informed that the Foreign Office would be unable to
agree to the grant of an export licence.
5.
On February 6th, 1929, we were informed by the
Board of Trade that they had received an enquiry from
Messrs. B. S.A. Guns, Ltd., as to whether a licence would be
issued in the event of their securing from the Afghan Minister
an order for 1,000 British service rifles and approximately
1,000 cartridges per rifle. The Board were advised to inform
the firm, privately and confidentially, that there was no
prospect of a licence being issued and that they should allow
the matter to drop.
State of "war" between Canton Government and Nanking
Government, 1931.
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In May 1931 an application was received from Imperial
Chemical Industries Limited for a licence to export T.N.T.
Canton for delivery to the Canton Government which was,
that time, virtually in a state of war with the Nanking
Licences for the export of war material to
Government.
China were only issued by the Board of Trade upon
the
production by the exporting company of documentary evidence that the Chinese Minister in London approved the export of the goods in question, and as this approval was not
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