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Coll 7/12 'Chinese Turkestan; import of arms via India' [24r] (47/315)
The record is made up of 1 file (157 folios). It was created in 13 Apr 1932-17 Sep 1937. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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international transit. No distinction shall be made which is based
on the nationality of persons, the hag of vessels, the place of origin,
departure, entry, exit or destination, or on any circumstances
relating to the ownership of goods or of vessels, coaching or goods
stock or other means of transport.
In order to ensure the application of the provisions of this
Article, Contracting States will allow transit in accordance with the
customary conditions and reserves across their territorial waters.
Article 3.
Traffic in transit shall not be subject to any special dues in
respect of transit (including entry and exit). Nevertheless, on such
traffic in transit there may be levied dues intended solely to defray
expenses of supervision and administration entailed by such transit.
The rate of any such dues must correspond as nearly as possible
with the expenses which they are intended to cover, and the dues
must be imposed under the conditions of equality laid down in the
preceding Article, except that on certain routes, such dues may be
reduced or even abolished on account of differences in the cost of
supervision.
Article 4.
The Contracting States undertake to apply to traffic in transit on
routes operated or administered by the State or under concession,
whatever may be the place of departure or destination of the traffic,
tariffs which’, having regard to the conditions of the traffic and to
considerations of commercial competition between routes, are
reasonable as regards both their rates and the method of their
application. These tariffs shall be so fixed as to facilitate inter
national traffic as much as possible. No charges, facilities or
restrictions shall depend, directly or indirectly, on the nationality
or ownership of the vessel or other means of transport on which an\
part of the complete journey has been or is to be accomplished.
Article 5.
No Contracting State shall be bound by this Statute to afford
transit for passengers whose admission into its territories is
forbidden, or for goods of a kind of which the importation is
prohibited, either on grounds of public health or security, or as a
precaution against -diseases of animals or plants.
Each Contracting State shall be entitled to take reasonable
precautions to ensure that persons, baggage and goods, particularly
goods which are the subject of a monopoly, and also vessels,
coaching and goods stock and other means of transport, are really
in transit, as well as to ensure that passengers in transit are in a
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The file contains correspondence regarding requests for arms and ammunition received by the Government of India from the Government at Sinkiang Province [Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu]. The principal correspondents are the Government of India Foreign and Political Department, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Political Department, HM Consulate-General at Kashgar [Kashi], and Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Charles Francis Schomberg. There are also a small number of letters received from Chinese officials, comprising: Pan Tsi-Lu, an Agent of the Governor of Sinkiang in Kashgar; the Peking Representative of the Sinkiang Provincial Government; and the Ministry of War.
The following topics are discussed in the correspondence dated 1932-1933: the initial approach to purchase mining machinery, aeroplanes and munitions from the Government of India or from British companies; further orders from Switzerland and Germany; arrangements for transporting materials to Sinkiang via India; negotiations to purchase arms and ammunition from Vickers-Armstrongs Limited; and the position of the Government of India with regard to the embargo on providing arms to China or Japan. Quotations from Vickers-Armstrongs can be found at folios 47-54, and 65-68.
The file contains several letters from Lieutenant-Colonel Schomberg, discussing: his role as an intermediary between the Government at Sinkiang and the Government of India; the reluctance of Chinese officials to deal with the Consulate-General at Kashgar (Nicholas Fitzmaurice); the difficulties he faced as a result of his unofficial position; Russian influence at Urumchi [Urumqi] and in East Turkestan; and his views on the Government of India's diplomatic policy.
At the front of the file is a small quantity of correspondence dated 1937, regarding a request for arms and ammunition received from the Tungan [Dungan or Hui] Government at Sinkiang. This includes discussion of the position of neutrality to be adopted towards Southern Sinkiang, the need to obtain permission from the Central Government at Nanking, and the possible application of the Barcelona Convention on the Freedom of Transit (1921).
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references found within the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 2).
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- 1 file (157 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 157; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- 17r:28v
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