CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939 — Page 152

53548/39.

sir,

14

149

3 AUG 1939

8. 8. 39.

With reference to the letter from this

Department of the 15th March I am directed by

Mr. Secretary MacDonald to transmit to you a copy

of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong forwarding

a statement of arms and ammunition which passed

through the Colony in transit to China during the

first half of 1939.

2. I am to ask that the returns in the despatch,

which are enclosed in original, may be forwarded to

the Board of Trade after inspection with a request that

they may be returned eventually to the Colonial Office.

I am,

sir,

Your most obedient servant,

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

(Glened) G. E.

A