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United Kingdom and Czechoslovakia over either).

I venture to submit that, with material as described

above, it would not serve any useful purpose to try to work

out a total, since a considerable number of countries are

involved, and all contribute unvalued items. It is worth

perhaps mentioning that in the period June-July, there are

small-arms ammunition items from Belgium the value of which

must total at least Hongkong #3 million, a similar consign-

ment from Czechoslovakia worth perhaps Hongkong #1.5 million,

and, what is of more interest for our purpose, a somewhat astonishing consignment of 22.9 million rounds of rifle etc., ammunition (over Hongkong #2 million) from Hungary. The

United States of America also feature with aeroplanes and

heavier material.

In other words all the arms exporting nations appear

to some extent, the Germans with the best of them, the least

conspicuous being France and Italy.

(Inld) P.H. G-B.

September 12th, 1938.