A Question as to the Release of Customs Surplus London, Apr. 28.
In the House of Commons to-day, Dr. William Chapple, the Liberal Member for Dumfriesshire, asked whether the Government had received a request by Dr. Wellington Koo to the Diplomatic Body in Peking to release about £320,000 of the Customs Surplus for the purpose of covering the arrears of pay and the expenses of Chinese diplomatic missions abroad.
Mr. Ronald MoNeill, the Under-Secretary of State for- Foreign Affairs, replied that the Government had not received any information in regard to this report except what had appeared in the press.—Reuter.
Tue Higher Provincial Court anthorities in Soochow have instructed the governors of the local prisons to find out the reason for the increasing number of deaths_which are taking place among prisoners.
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