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arms, ammunition and implements of war which your

Government, in common with the other Governments of

the League of Nations, has adopted in connection with

the embargo on the exportation of arms which it has

put in effect in respect to Italy. Both of these lists

conform closely to the list prepared by the Committee

for the Regulation of the Trade in and Private and

State Manufactore of Arms and Implements of War. In

view of the fact that your Government has adopted such

a list in respect to exports from Great Britain to

Italy, I again venture to express the hope that it may

find it possible to adopt a similar list in respect to

China. Such action which would bring the procedure

of our two Governments into harmony would, I believe,

even if followed by our two Governments only, do much

to achieve the objectives of preventing the development

or the continuance in China of conditions of domestic

violence and of cooperating with the Chinese Government

in its efforts to maintain an effective control of the

import into China of arms, ammunition and implements

of war which both of our Governments desire to achieve.

Accept, Excellency, etc.

For the Secretary of State:

(Signed) R. WALTON MOORE.