Government Asked to Ensure Aid is International waa"
London, Nov. 5.
The question of helping China to recuperate after the present hostillties was raised in the House of Commons to-day by Mr. Louis William Smith, Conservative member for the of the certainty that at the end of the war China would need financial assistance to enable her to recuper~ ate, British Influence would be used, it China so desired, to ensure that such assistance was' international in character and not to the advantage of any particular nation.
Lord Cranborne, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replied that the British Government would continue to attach the greatest importance to the principle that such assistance to China should not be a matter for international rivalry but should always be the subject of frank eonsultation between the interested powers, including of course, China herself.—Reuter.
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