The territory adjacent to Hongkong. is held by the British Government under lease from the Central Government of China, and is garrisoned by British troops. This statement was made in the House of Commons fo-day by, Mr. Leslie Here-Belisha, Secretary for War, in reply to questions put by Mr. Arthur Henderson, Labour member for the Kingswinford division of Staffordshire, to Mr. Eden.
He should explain, Mr. Hore-Beliisba added, that the Leased Territory properly to be regarded as an in-tegal part of the Colony for the period of the lease, No special. ins structions, he said, had been given to the officers in command with the object of preventing the use of such territory by the Japanese forces invading any other adjacent Chinese territory.
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