CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938 — Page 11

34. Plain

Plain capies

35.

thanghai

I 13, 20,

capies of

223

36. Shanghai 226

*7.

Harkow

106

68. Kankow

10[.

39. F.O.

F.1577/1/10

11.2-88.

Lu

copy

raido

Date

of deep feam Canton railway

Fe

of 29/12;

17-20 Dec.

Copy herewith.

Done

17/2

See (36).

34. The plain language copies of the

telegrams at 13, 20 and 24 have now been

received, and in the case of

تد

(20)

a shows a considerable discrepancy, the

correct figure i cistume #izTEDEGÓ

instead of 2767 tons. to date.

?

being 1767 tons

I have brought the graph of

send amended copies of a 20 as

in the usual distribution list.

35.

This is the summary of the Military

Attaché's appreciation of the present situation

in China. He states that the Chinese Army is

irreparably smashed and the Air Force eliminated.

The only hope of the new Government lies in the

provision of facilities for implementation of

war material, and he considers that it would

be most unwise for H.M.G. to "bolster up a

dying cause". The Central Government should

therefore, he considers, receive no encouragement

or support whatever I attempt to import

war material via British territory.

#

H.M. Chargé d'Affaires does not agree with these

views, nor with those of Mr. MacKillop (at

Hankow) who thinks that the Central Government

will