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MEMORANDUM
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With reference to Foreign Office Printed
Letter No.7
6745/130/10 of the 23rd September
requesting observations on telegram No.2 of the
19th September from the Commercial Secretary
at Hong Kong relative to gas masks for Canton,
the Department of overseas Trade enclose a copy
of a telegram No.11 of the 7th September from that
officer. The telegram says that the Mayor of
Canton wanted to purchase a million masks in an
ordinary commercial manner for the civilisn
population presumably of Canton. The enquiry was
accordingly passed to Messrs. Matheson & Co. Ltd.,
3 Lombard Street, London, E.C.3. on the 9th
September, who were given the necessary particulars
in the form of a mesa andum.
2. The question of the delivery of munitions of
war through Burma has been raised separately in
memorandum No.25515/35/34 of the 17th September
from the Department of Overseas Trade to the
Foreign Office.
Action on paragraph 2 of Mr.
Pelham's
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