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the result of a project to set up

factory

in Hong Kong, under the auspices of the

(a depot

Chinese Government for the assembly of

to be exported to

Sex China.

aircraft

It was considered at

the time that such a project could not be

permitted in view of the special position

of Hong Kong, but the Cabinet decision

as embodied in the telegram eventually

sent as F.0. telegram No.469 of the 18th

of November to H. M. Chargé d'Affaires at

Nanking stated that H.M.G. would be opposed

to the assembly in British territory of

aeroplanes for delivery to China.

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Considered

The meeting decided therefore

was dearable to ascertain

that it should be ascertained whether the

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Cabinet decision to prohibit the export of

aircraft to the belligerents from Hong Kong

was to be messsainee and if so, whether

this prohibition applied to all British

territory or only to Hong Kong. If the

it should be

completed

equally regarded as applicable to the new

now under

new prout now

Connderation for the establishment by private interests of a factory

decard that the prohibition of the caport of completed airerapy for the assembly, and

from Hong Kong must be maintained, buosher it was keession is not apply to Hong Kong, then

not necessary to apply a similar prohibition to Burma,

it was proposed that the Governor of Hong

Kong

eventically the manufacture, of acriraps, and as precluding, Wheir hostilitu, last, the

cafont of completed ausurajs wither of the belligerents,

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