Home Government Uninformed as to Amount Carried Off London, July 9.
In the House of Commons to-day Mr. H. W. Looker (Conservative) drew attention to the fact that the' Northern forces in China recently carried off to. Manchuria; 6,000 trucks and 300 locomotives, being practically half the rolling stock of the railways north of the Yangtze. He said that two British firms were owed over $1,000,000 for rolling. stock and large sums were owed to other British firms for railway material by the Chinese authorities and asked what the Government Proposed to do about it.
Sir Austen Chamberlain replied] that he was not aware what rolling stock had been carried off. Constant efforts, he added, were being made to secure payment of debts due from the Chinese authorities Dut any results were not likely til 18 unified control emerged in China.
The Secretary for Foreign Affaits stated that he did not think an inquiry as regards the carrying-off of rolling-stock by the Northern forces would help at the presex
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