B80¢0 [Nanking Does janking Not Control the The acreage un 12,186, cultivation in 1929 Country, Speaker Says
London, Apr, 1.
\ges and Allowances, Hongkong.
Replying to questions in the it K, Wood asked the First Lord House of Commons today, the of the Admiralty whether he has Secretary of State for Foreign! given consideration to the. position Affairs, Mr, Arthur Henderson, said of certain examiners of naval am-there had been no material change munition in Hongkong and the jin conditions in China since his method of payment of their statement on March 9 regarding miuneration; and, seeing that the the situation in that country. whole of their wages and allowances Mr. Godfrey Locker-Lampson, are in dollars, and that owing to Conservative member for the Wood the continued fall of the dollar they [Green division of Middlesex, who and their families, many of whom iwas formerly Under-Secretary of are resident in this country, are State for Foreign Affairs, asked if suffering considerable hardship, the Chinese Government' at Nan-particularly in those cases where king now controlled the greater the dollar has to be converted into part, of China.
Mlecling for allotment, that in cor-"No, Iam afraid it does not," tain cases when their appointment replied Mr. Henderson.—Reuter,
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