The Archive · 1938

Tokyo Has Hopes in New British Envoy

Tokyo, Feb. 19.

Great Britain has regained a foremost place in supplying arms and ammunition to China through Hongkong, according to the Hongkong correspondent of the "Asahi Shimbun."

From January 2 to February 15, he says, 28 foreign vessels carried war supplies to China through Hongkong. These included one Danish, one Italian, twelve British, three German, three Norwegian, two Netherlands and two American ships.

War supplies landed in Hongkong for China were—

From Barram: 27 aeroplanes, 700 tons of gun-powder and other explosives, 290 tons of "quasi-explosives", 200 cases of Filles, 180 tons of ammunition, 400 tons Oi bombs, 20 tanks 500 cases of sulphurie acid. two military motor-lorries, fifteen anti-aircraft gun', 1,500 tons of bridge materials, 109 tons of railway materials, and 30 tons of other war

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