Registry No. F 3492/60/10
Draft.
Sir Ronald Lindsay,
Washington.
NO.
(67)
Immediate.
Sir,
F. O, S.W.1.
234
June
, 1935.
I have considered Your Excellency's
despatch No. 462 of the 26th April last,
regarding the export of arms to China via
Hong Kong• I note that the United States
Government are inclined to regard with favour
the suggestion that they should forward to
the Governor of Hong Kong copies of licences
issued for the export of arms consigned either
to the colony or through it to China, but that
they desire to be informed whether such a
procedure would also be enforced in the case
of arms of other origin.
2. In the first place, the suggested
procedure has been in force in the case of
exports of arms from the United Kingdom for
more than a year;
consequently the loophole
which His Majesty's Government and the United
States Government are equally concerned to
close
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