Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr. F. D. Acland, Financial Secretary to the War Office, said that the Commander of the China Squadron before the fall of Shanghai suggested the eventual necessity of landing troops to protect foreign interests. He reported that the German and Japanese Admirals bad made a similar suggestion. The Government, however, doubted the necessity of such action at present, and it would continue to restrict action to the protection of Britich lives and property and also those of foreigners in cases where
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