CO129-573-2 Export of torpedo boats to China 14-5-1938 - 5-10-1938 — Page 26

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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MESSAGE.

سما

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From: Captain on Staff,H.M.S. TAMAR.

IN.

RECD.

DATE 1/8/38.

TIME 1925.

Addressed D.N.I. repeated S.0.(I) Shanghai.

Your 1615 29th July probably refers to Parent Ship

for Coastal Motor Boats named JANGLEUM launched 5th May

1938 built by Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co. to order of

Central Government received December, 1936.

2. By original arrangement ship to be armed after

delivery at Shanghai with small guns purely for self

defence only.

3. Work much delayed and completion indefinite owing to

impossibility of delivery because ship liable to seizure

after leaving Hong Kong.

4. Your laat paragraph is untrue but may refer to

transport of C.M.B'a by train to Canton.

1516/1.

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