The Archive · 1929

CHINESE REQUEST

BRITAIN

Impossibility of Lending Officers to Reconstitute the Navy, London, Mar.

Commander Barr (2), of the Chinese Navy, is visiting London on A secret mission on behalf of the Chinese Government.

According to the "Daily Express,' the has approached the British Gowernment with a request to lend China a number of naval officers to reconstitute the Chinese fleet. Britain has been compelled to ro-fuse under the terms of the Arms Embargo Agreement between Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the United States.—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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