Conservative member for the West. division of Woolwich, and Captain Eden, Conservative member for the Warwick and Leamington division lof Warwickshire, in the House of Commons to-day, the Foreign Secret lary, Mr. Arthur Henderson, express-led deep sympathy with Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister to China, in his bereavement.
Mr. Henderson said that he had received no report of the alleged injeldent at Wuchow mentioned by Sir Kingsley Wood, namely, that the Chinese authorities there had refused to hand over to the British Naval authorities two British subjects, the-pilot and coxswain of a Hongkong launch, on the plea that extraterritorial privileges had been abolished.
Sir Kingsley Wood also drew Jattention to the "serious incident" in connection with Commander Me-
Bride.
The Foreign Secretary promised to inquire into the matter-and see Jwhat could be'done.
Replying to Captain Eden, Mr. Henderson said that the Government had been corresponding with the other Powers in regard to extraterritoriality, Replying to Mr. J. S. Wardlaw-Milne, Conservative member for the Kidderminster division of Worcestershire, the. Foreign Secretary said that he would not go so far as to say that the action of the Chinese Government was quite wrong.
Mr. Wardiaw-Milne suggested that while negotiations were proceeding, the position of Britons in China was difficult and, perhaps, dangerous.
Mr, Henderson said that he was ]well aware of the unsettled condition Jof things in China, He added that they were dealing with the situation, inthe best way possible and had at heart the interests of Britons in tion and progressive: abandonment" of the British extraterritorial rights. in China, He at the present moment. did not seo any advantage in the procedure suggested—Reuter, The Hankow Case Washington, Jan. 30.
In reply to a question to-day concerning the recent Hankow incident wherein the moter car of a British, officer killed a coolie, with the subsequent arrest of the officer by ese authorities, Joseph Cotton, acting Secretary of State, said that he had received a full report as to the facts of the episode and he is disposed to lieve that the result of the case will not be binding upon the United States as a test case of extrater-
Hitorial status.
Obviously, however, there will be' an indirect effect with reference 9 future procedure and the state of public opinion, and therefore the State Department is interested in following up its result, Mr. Cotton said—United Press.
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