CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938 — Page 152

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of military aircraft and accessories is to be regulated by

the "Ordinance governing the Importation of Aircraft and

Materials" a translation of which was forwarded to the

Foreign Office under cover of Peking Legation despatch

No. 454 of 21st March 1935 and communicated to consular

officers in China in Circular No. 26 of the same date.

The omission of sulphur and potassium chlorate, together

with nitric acid, a sulphuric acid, from the list of

ratuwials in Article Six, and the similar omission of the above two acids in Article Two (Four) may be also worth

noting.

4. The principal object of this revision would appear

on analysis to be to enable the Ministry of War to exercise

direct control over the issue and administration of permits

for the shipment of military material at its discretion and

without the necessity of previous reference to the National

Government.

I have, etc.

(Signed) G.P. Young.

In the absence of H.M. Ambassador.