CO129-556-13 Traffic in arms to China 6-1-1936 - 13-1-1937 — Page 38

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to limit future exports of war material to the Government

of Macao or their accredited agents, although we

recognise that such limitation would be unlikely to

effect very much.

As regards arms and ammunition other than war

material we would propose now to reply to the United

States Government, if you agree, that nothing is exported

without production of a licence from the Macao authorities (see paragraph 3 of Sir Andrew Caldecott's despatch of

which you sent us a copy in your letter No.53548/36 of

the 11th May last): and that it is thus impossible

for Hong Kong to see that arms so exported do not enter

the illicit trade in China. I accordingly enclose for

your concurrence a draft despatch to Sir Ronald Lindsay.

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Ancerey Agil Ronald

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