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Sir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai)
22nd June 1958.
D.
W/T
23rd June 1938.
R.
9.30 a.m.
24th June 1938.
No.990 (R)
mammumam.
Hongkong telegram unnumbered to Mission of June 20th,
repeated to you.
My telegram No.996 last sentence. Aircraft in question is
a civil type. Removal of machine gun fittings to which Madame
Chiang Kai-shek agrees would render it fully as innocuous as the
six D.H.Rapides recently allowed to be erected in Hongkong for
use as ambulance machines (please see Mission telegram No.35 to
Hongkong and Hongkong unnumbered telegram in reply of March 23rd
repeated to you from here).
In view of this and of the fact that aeroplane is personal
gift to Madame Chiang Kai-shek I hope His Majesty's Government
will feel able to treat this as an exceptional case and authorize
assembly in Hongkong.
Addressed to Foreign Office. Repeated to Mission and Hongkong.
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