Hongkong, Jan. 31.
About $300,000,000 in silver coins and bullion have been exported from Hongkong to London during the last three months. The latest consignment has been shipped aboard the P. and O. liner Corfu, which will reach London on February 22. The amount of thi shipment is not stated.
The last shipment of arms from Czecho-Slovakia ordered by the Finance Minister, Dr. H. H. Kung, during his visit io Europe last year arrived here recently by steamer and were immediately forwarded to Hankow via the Canton-Hankow Railwa: To hold up this transportation, Japanese naval planes have been bombing two or three times a day the Canton-Kowloon and Canton-Hankow Railways.
hile many people were killed and numerous houses were blown up by the: bombing of Japanese seaplanes, the shipments of arms managed to go through to the Chinese troops in Central China. The imports from Czecho-Slovakia alone will be enough to Keep on the war for one yer. according to customs circles.
Japanese reports stated that Mr. T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of General Chiang Kai-shek, China's military chief, is supervising the transshipments of arms at Hongkong. He has a staff of eleven American-trained secretaries to help him in this work, and is in daily touch by cable with agents in Europe and America.
Before Mr. Soong took up his post In Hongkong as unofficial "minister of munitions," the imported arms were unevenly distributed, with the result that some divisions had an cessive supply of them, while other: sorely lacked munitions to hold back the Japanese.
There are several routes by which war materials can reach China; from Indo-China to Yunnan province and from Soviet Russia to Kansu and Shensi provinces, but the most convenient way is via Hongkong owing to shipping facilities and railway connections here,
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