CO129-571-15 Sino-Japanese War- manufacture and import of aircraft to China 18-1-1938 - 5-1-1939 — Page 111

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BURMA OFFICE

WHITEHALL, S.W.1.

B. 3468/38.

BY SECRET AIR MAIL.

SECRET.

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My dear Seymour,

13th July 1938.

Will you please refer to your secret demi-official letter No.46 D(C) 38 Part II, dated 25th June in which

you enquire the position regarding the assembly of military aircraft for China in Rangoon.

It so happens that we were on the point of sending out to you some information about a proposal to erect in Hong Kong a factory for the manufacture of aircraft, and the enclosed copy of a letter from the Foreign Office to the Colonial Office will give you the answer to paragraph 3 of your letter. You will see that, while the Cabinet have

decided that it is desirable

No. F. 4832/3284/10 dated 24th June.

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for Hong Kong to act as if there

were in fact a war between China and Japan and to assume the duties and obligations of a neutral, that decision does not apply to other British territory, and that if the promoters of a scheme for the establishment of an aircraft factory were to consider the early establishment of such

A. H. Seymour, Esq., I.C.S.,

Defence Department,

Government of Burma.

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