§ Colonel DAYasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state what licences have been issued for the period ending the 31st December, 1925, for the export of machine guns or other war material to any foreign Powers; when these transactions took place; and what was their exact nature?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER,pursuant to his reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th June, 1926, Cols. 2100-2101], supplied the following answer:
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Date of Issue of Licence. Material. Approximate Value. Destination. 1925. £ 10th March … 5,000 gun fuzes … … 2,250 Spain. 10th March … 531,000 cartridges … … 4,400 China. 21st March … 370 empty shells … … 50,000 Japan. 24th March … Copper driving bands for projectiles … 1,000 Chile. 25th March … 2 sets firing gear … … 2,000 Japan. 30th March … 100,000 cartridges … … 750 Siam. 9th April … 2 machine guns … … 700 Finland. 24th April … 250,000 cartridges … … 1,750 Latvia. 29th April … Lewis gun parts … … 1,300 France. 6th May … 30 machine guns … … 1,750 Latvia 30 sets of magazines … … 7th May … 16,300,000 cartridges … … 142,600 Roumania. 16th May … 150 machine guns … … 39,750 Latvia. 300 sets spare parts … … 25th May … 4 auto guns and parts, 1,000 cartridges … 2,375 Poland. 28th May … 18 armour piercing shells … … 630 Italy. 29th May … 20,000 incendiary bombs … … 2,250 Spain. 16th June … 1,250 cartridges for aiming tubes … … 500 Chile. 23rd June … 6 machine guns and spare parts … … 4,600 Abyssinia. 100 rifles … … 250,000 cartridges … … 1st July … 500 soluble plugs for submarine mines … 700 Argentina 100 mooring ropes for ditto … … 23rd July … 800,000 cartridges … … 9,650 Esthonia. 24th July … 349,410 charges, propulsive … … 7,500 Poland 27th July … 50 torpedoes, tools and spare parts for torpedoes, 1,800 torpedo heater igniters. 130,950 Greece. 30th July … 600 barre's for Lewis guns … … 1,600 Latvia. 4th August … 1 infantry gun, 450 rounds ammunition … 2,350 Poland 6th August … 30,000 rifles with 1,000 rounds ammunition per rifle. 120,000 Turkey 7th August … 11 electric deton[...]tors for submarine mines 3,200 Holland 100 depth charges, unfilled … … 8th August … Shells, shell fuses, gun charges, etc. … 10,950 Siam 8th August … Shells, shell fuses, gun charges, etc. … 15,500 Siam 13th August … 45 obturators for breech mechanism … 750 Spain. 14th August … 8 machine gun with spare barrels and parts: 5,000 Prideaux links … … 5,300 Italy. 20,000 rounds ammunition … … 18th August … 100 feed boxes for machine guns … … 1,800 Roumania. 25th August … 200 submarine mines, unloaded … … 48,000 Peru. 26th August … 10,000 howitzer shells … … 15,000 Latvia. 10,000 tubes … … 10,000 cartridges … … 10,000 fuses … … 26th August … 4 carriages traveling howitzer … … 2,500 Latvia. 4 Limbers … … 27th August … 6 sets of torpedo tubes … … 24,700 Greece. 2nd September … 8,000 rounds howitzer shell … … 74,250 Greece. 5th September … 5,000 times fuses … … 5,250 Finland. 9th September … 18 sets bomb carriers For Aeroplanes Not Known Chile. 54 machine guns 18 sets C. C. gears 18 gun mountings 5,580 bombs 800,000 rounds ammunition 11th September … 72 guns complete … … 40,000 Latvia 12th September … 14 machined steel air vessels for torpedoes 2,600 France. 16th September … 18 machine guns and spare parts … … 3,450 Argentine. 3 links adjusting machines … … 21st September … 10 sight stems for field guns 1,250 Roumania 10 dial sights
Date of Issue of Licence. Material. Approximate Value. Destination. 1925 £ 21st September … 397 sight stems for field guns 49,750 Roumania. 390 dial sights 24th September … 1 field gun with equipment … … 3,600 Poland. 450 rounds ammunition … … 7th October … 2,000 rifles … … 3,500 Latvia. 5th November … 8,000 Lewis gun magazines … … 1,200 Latvia. 5th November … 100 dial sights, etc. … … 3,400 Latvia. 100 clinometers … … 15 gun carriages … … 3 limber carriages … … 20 limber carriages … … 12 breeches … … 6th November … 530,000 rounds rifle ammunition … … 4,850 Roumania. 6th November … One quick firing gun and carriage … 1,800 Poland. 450 rounds ammunition … … 11th November … 6,000 rounds ammunition with high explosive shells and fuzes complete for anti-aircraft guns 36,000 Greece. 18th November … 3 auto machine guns, spares, tools and accessories, etc 850 Portuguese East Africa. 20th November … Spare parts for torpedo mechanisms … 550 Greece. 23rd November … 2 machine guns and spare parts … … 570 Finland. 6,000 cartridges … … 25th November … 1,000 Lewis gun magazines … … 1,500 France. 1st December … 400 aerial bombs … … 2,800 Esthonia. 400,000 Prideaux links … … 10 Lewis gun loading machines … … 10 ammunition testing machines … … 1st December … 10 Lewis guns, complete with spares, etc. … … 1,150 Argentina. 60 magazines … … 3rd December … 12 machine guns … … 2,000 Argentina. 11th December … 370 empty shells … … 50,000 Japan. 15th December … 20,500 fuzes for shrapnel shell … … 11,800 Roumania. 16th December … 16 machine guns with spares, accessories, etc. 4,000 Denmark. 3 sets C.C. gear … … 25,000 cartridges … … 16th December … 11 mountings for machine guns … … 640 Sweden. 1,500 rounds ammunition … … 21st December … C.C. gears for operating machine guns … Not Known Denmark. 1 machine gun (for fitting to aeroplanes) 21st December … Howitzer ammunition … … 2,100 Portugal. 23rd December … 5 machine guns … … 1,140 Italy(for ultimate despatch to Chile. 5 gun chests … … 12 bomb racks … … 4 launching tubes … … 28th December … 165 machine guns and spare parts … 49,600 Japan. 28th December … 4,454 charges for howitzers … … 6,200 Greece. 29th December … 2,000 electric primers … … 650 Brazil. 2,000 percussion primers … … 29th December … 5,000 rounds ammunition … … 3,700 Brazil. 30th December … 1,800 torpedo heater ignitors … … 900 Greece. Note.—The above statement does not include licences for the exportation of explosives, some of which may possibly be for military use.