CO129-571-15 Sino-Japanese War- manufacture and import of aircraft to China 18-1-1938 - 5-1-1939 — Page 181

COPY

(F 2137/298/10)

BY SAFE HAND

No.1.

+

(Last No. 3 of 1937)

Office of the Commercial Secretary

(for South China) to His Majesty's

Embassy at Peking.

Hong Kong and Shanghai

Bank Building,

181

Hong Kong.

Copy to:

British Embassy, Shanghai, No. 1.

(and three copies).

11th January, 1938.

Sir,

With reference to my despatch No. 3 of 1st December,

1937 regarding the Gloster Aircraft sent to Hong Kong for

onward conveyance to China, I have the honour to report

that twenty Gloster Gladiator single seater fighters have

now been assembled in Canton by Mr. Summers and his

mechanics.

Summers.

2.

The machines were tested and passed by Mr.

I am informed that subsequently five of these

machines have been damaged in the course of use by Chinese

pilots.

3. Mr. Summers is now back in Hong Kong awaiting

the arrival of cases containing the further sixteen Gloster

machines which I understand are now on the high seas.

I have &c.,

(Signed)

G.C. Pelham.

H.M. Trade Commissioner

and Commercial Secretary.

H.M. Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,

Foreign Office,

Whitehall,

LONDON, S.W.1.