CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939 — Page 161

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TPercentage

Origin of materials

Carried by British ships Carried by Foreign ships

Materials

Total materials

in british vessels.

British

Foreign

British materials

Foreign materials

British materials

Foreign materials

Military aeroplanes

16 planes

16

16 aeroplanes

100%

planes

Aeroplane spares

6 cases

8 cases

Torpedoes

6 Nos.

6 cases

6 Nos

8 cases

14 cases

43%

6 Nos.

100%

Mountain guns

4 Nos

4 Nos

4 Nos

Nil

Spare parts for

mountain guns

Shells for mountain

guns

Armoured cars

18 cases

120 rounds

18

cases

18 cases

Nil

120 rounds

120 rounds

Nil

40

cars

40

40 cars

Nil

cars

Tanks

Bombs

50 Nos

50 Nos

50 tanks

100%

34,037

30,537

Nos

Nos

3,500 Nos

34,037 Nos

89%

Machine guns

Cartridges for rifles

2,250,000

3,199 pieces

41,439,050

148 pieces

3,051

3,199 pieces

4.6

pieces

& machine guns

rounds

rounds

2,250,000

rounds

11,782,050 rounds

29,657,000

43,689,050

rounds

32.1%

rounds

Tripods

200 pieces

200 pieces

200 pieces

Nil

Spare parts for

330

machine guns

cases

330 cases

330 cases

100

Anti aircraft guns

20

20

pieces

pieces

20 pieces

100%

Shells for anti

52,620

52,620

aircraft guns

rounds

rounds

52,620 rounds

100%

Barrels for anti

40

40

aircraft guns

40 pieces

100%

pieces

pieces

Fuses for shells

39,960

39,960

39,960 pieces

100%

pieces

pieces

Shells for anti

19,980

19,980

tank guns

rounds

rounds

19,980 rounds

100%

Shells for howitzers

2,028

2,028

2,028 rounds

100%

rounds

rounds

Spare parts for

98

projectiles

cases

98 cases

198 cases

Nil

Rifles

7,000

pieces

Pistols & revolvers

1,625

pieces

700

pieces

7,000 pieces

7,000 pieces

Nil

925 pieces

1,625 pieces

43%

Cartridges for

552,000

285,000

pistols & revolvers

rounds

rounds

T. N. T.

13,686

267,000 rounds 13,686

552,000 rounds

52%

13,66 cases

cases

Nil

cases

Smokeless powder

Tetryl

1,602

cases

280

1,602

1,602 cases

Nil

cases

280

Detonators

cases

223

280 cases

Nil

cases

Dynamite

Fuses for bombs

400 cases

24,848

pieces

24,848 pieces

cases 223 cases

400 cases

223 cases

Nil

400 cases 24,848 pieces

Nil

100%

(a) British ships carrying war materials

Glenaffric Comorin Benalder

Indira Boxhill

Benlawers Teiresias Bangalore

Average percentage by ships: 50

(b) Foreign ships carrying war materials

Franken

Gneisenau Michigan

Tonking

Vogtland

Siam

Sikiang

Vogesen.

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