The Archive · 1930

British Tanks for China

Eleven Supplied and Twelve More Ordered London, May 12.

In the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Frank Owen, Liberal member for Hereford, asked when ther recent negotiations had occurred with the Nanking Government for the delivery of British tanks, The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hugh Dalton, replied that there had been no negotiations so far as the British Government was concerned, but that at the request of the Nanking Government a British firm had recently supplied eleven tanks and had contracted to deliver twelve

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