London, Mar. 10.
After a somewhat heated discussion, the Foreign Office Supplementary Estimates, including a grant of £5,000 to Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, former British Amba: sador to China, and an item of £15,000 to cover the cost of the transport to Hongkong and the maintenance there of British subjects, mostly women and children, evacuated from Shanghai at the outbreak there of Sino-Japanese hostilities, were carried in the House of Commons to-day by 207 votes to 110.
one adoption of the Estimates fol-Icwed the rejection by 209 votes to 111 of a Labour Opposition motion, moved by Mr. D. R. Grenfell, for a reduction of the vote.
To ask British refugees from China iv pay the cost of their conveyance, Mr. Grenfell said, was very shabby. He suggested that the Japanese should be asked to foot the bill, and also to pay the grant of £5,000 to Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen.
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