in Loans London, May 31. question of Manchoukuo's in the service of the loans secured on the Chinese Maritime Customs was raised in. the House of Commons to-day by Br. J. G. Burnett, Conservative member for Aberdeen, who observed that Manchoukuo's import and exports exceeded a quarter of the total Chinese trade, Sir John Simon, the Foreign Seeretary, agreed that this was a very important fact, and recalled that the Manchoukuo authorities had expressed their readiness to pay the Chinese authorities their quota towards the loan services. He said. he understood that the "payments inst July and December were out of the revenues accrued when the Customs was seized.
Sir John pointed out that the Chinese Government was responsible for the service of loans.—Reuter. the Truce Agreement "The Chinese Government urged as well as encouraged the troops to continue the defence of their country with heart and soul and to the best of their ability. At the same time the Government would permit the cessation of local hostilities provided that, the territorial -soverelgnty of China be unimpaired and various international agreements concerning the maintenance of world Pesce and Jostice remain" unpre "The agreement relating to_ the cessation of fighting in Caihli Province has now been signed by repierentatives of the military' com-Imanders at the front." Needless to say, it is most Painful to examine this document. "However, as it is confined to military matters and touches upon no political issues it does not in the least affect. the fundamental policy which the nese Government had adopted.
"China will seek a just and equity able settlement of the whole situa tion in the Far East under the same Principles which have hitherto guided her efforts in this regard and which have been upheld by practical Ly all the nations of the world." Reater.
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