(F.1638/60/10).
NO DISTRIBUTION.
Cypher telegram to Sir A. Cadogan. (Peking).
Foreign Office.
No. 109.
IMPORTANT.
March 13th. 1935.
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Consideration is being given to the question of approaching the Chinese Government in the matter of exports of arms from Germany to China. Under Article 170 of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany may not export arms. The Chinese Government might therefore be asked in their capacity of Signatories to refuse entry to arms consigned from Germany as their country of origin.
Before sending you instructions I should be glad
if you could ascertain from public documents, or by discreet enquiry, what proportion of the arms listed in the Chinese Customs statistics for the years 1933 and 1934 as coming from Germany were in transit, and what proportion originated there.
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