Apparently the hope of the Chan. cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Winston Churchill, to be able to pay for the operations of the Shanghai Defence Force by economies in other directions has been frustrated owing to prolongation of the situation, Consequently in the coming, week the Government will ask the House of Commons to vote a supplementary estimate to the War Office to the end of the financial year for an amount in the neighbourhood of Dee. 5. the House of Commons so-day Commander Douglas Kinz, Financial Secretary to the War Office, regretted the impossi adopting the made by Lt.-Col Hall (Conservative:
[Dulwich div.) to retain Section "A" Army Reservists returning from China in the Army until they were jable, to obtain employment—Reuter.
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