Had the Foreign Secretary considered the danger to British trade that would arise if the present system continued of permitting Japanese goods to be imported to Shanghai without the payment of customs duties This question was asked in the House of Commons to-day by Cmdr. Arthur Marsden, Conservative member for the Chertsey division of Surrey In reply, Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the Government was fully alive to the irregular situation now obtaining to the prejudice of non-Japanese trade and customs duties, which formed the security for foreign loans.
Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador in Tokyo, he added, had already made representations in this matter to the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Koki Hirota—Reuter.
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