London, Feb. 4.
'There are groundy. for hoping: that' the representations made by the Powers for restoring the #*tuation at' Shanghai to normalcy are having some Result, Sir John Simon, the Foreign Secretary, informed questioner in the House' et Con mons tos ite said that, for the moment, the'
ie good offices of the. Powers to venient wis marking tine" for havo'an undisturbed effect, "George Lansbury, leader of the Opposition, said that he ae. liviescedl in the Governntent's Not, to debate the subject, 'Mr. James Maxton, the fire brand Labour "member of the Bridgeton division of Glasgow, however, argu-fed that the House' of Commons, which wax responsible for sending} 4 whole regiment of British' troops to Slanghal, was "debarred from!
ating a'snatter which was being sed everywhere els Sir" John Simon nevertheless de-lined to agree that n debate in the present "delicate situation" would do any goat! whatever.—Reuter.
4 German Attitude Defined Berlin, Feb, 4,
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