CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938 — Page 91

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No. F 3468/71/23

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The Under-Secretary of State,”

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

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Sir,

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FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

7th April, 1938.

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I am directed by Viscount Halifax to state that,

according to a telegram received from His Majesty's

Ambassador at Tokyo, his Military Attaché was informed

recently by the Japanese General Staff that Germany has now

stopped the sale of arms by her nationals to China. His

Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin is being asked whether he has

any information tending to confirm or controvert this

statement. Meanwhile Lord Halifax would be grateful if

telegraphic enquiries in the same sense could be made of the

Governor of Hong Kong should Mr. Ormsby-Gore see no objection.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Cow, Orde

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.