Slow Chinese Court Rédress for Creditors London, Mar. 8.
Shanghai occupied the spotlight for part of terday's session of the House of Commons. - Sir Cecil Hanbury, Conservative member for North Dorset, who was at one time engaged in business in Shanghai, drew attention to the serious damage to British commercial interests there because of the impossibility of obtaining prompt redress from Chinese courts In case of default in the repayment of sums advanced to Chinese Sir Cecil requested that representations on the subject should be made. He also drew attention to the "under mining" of the system of mortgage credits by Chinese courts.
Viscount Cranborne, Under-Seeretary of 'State for Foreign Affairs, replied that the matter had been the subject of correspondence between the Consular body at Shanghai and General Wu 'Te-chen, Mayor Greater Shanghai, who had stated that, In ordinary' cases, the fore closure Inw provided for the disallowance of appeals designed to rotang litigation.
"The last Information received by the Foreign Secretary, Mr, Anthony Eden, was that the foreign chambers of commerce at Shanghai wore con-Sidering the Mayor's statement, and fla mot appear that representations by. the. Brilish Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, were at present called for.
Mr, Adrian Moreing, Conservative member for Preston, raised the mat {er of decisions given by Chinese courts In the matter of unpaid rents, He asked what action was proposed to prevent serious damage to British commercial interests in Shangh Because of the absence of effective means of recovering rents from defaulting Chinese tenants.
Viscount Cranborne replied that the British Ambassador had been quested to submit a report on the Subject—Reuter,
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