Australia?!?
As the Tanks would have arrived in Australia as refugee cargo, there's a question of wether they became the property of the NEI representatives in Australia or if they were comandeered by the Australian authorities. As the Australian Army didn't order them, they would not have become Army property, they might come under the control of the Dept of Supply.
This Department was on the Eastern Supply Group Council (might have even controlled it), the same Council which organised for the total production of 400 Australian 3" mortar carriers to be shipped to Chinese Nationalists as aid. If the M-H tanks were shipped to China as aid though, it wouldn't explain the existance of an American builders plate in Chinese!
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