London, Mar. 10.
The British Consul-General in Shanghai, Mr. Herbert Phillips, had addressed a protest to the Japanese Consul-General and had requested that instructions be issued to refrain from censoring British mails, declared the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, in the House of Commons to-day in reply to Mr, A. C. Moreing, Conservative member for Preston.
Representations on the same subject, Mr. Butler added, were made by the British Embassy in Tokyo: March 3.
Mr. Moreing asked whether, if the Japanese continued their policy of trying to impose a censorship, the British Government would consider re-opening the British Post Office in Shanghai temporarily to ensure that British mails reach British officials without being touched.
Mr. Butler replied that he would like to wait for the results of the representations made.—Reuter
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