fon that matter, which "T think T should like to ask, one question Important. Who is. there in' Mancehoukue looking after British nation. fils, British trade. and Who will" be responsible British company" or British duals are attacked, "or thei money and, goods. are confiscated Who does the right hon. Gentleman deal with in matters connected with Manchuria of Manchoukuo at the resent time? I understand that we ave not recognised the Government there, but what sort of relationship have" we there? Do. we still re= cognize the Chinese Government as {the sovereign power in Manchoukuo? He'not, does Chat not -mean" that, without putting it on paper, we are Acgiioseing in the. java sion. and eanlure of that country? [should {ike the right hon. Gentleman to tell tus what ie the position. "1 should also to say, on the question of armaments and, disarmament enerally, that the Press in this country thas Very. lately reported that a National War Council has just "ed a vast military, naval, and ddget in Japan, and that there are AME. accumulations of. munitions antiwar materials; and would Tike the Foreign. Secretary to tell us whether' he has any information
material in this country, and when with regard to the purchase of war ther he has information with regard to the "purchases "of war material by either China or Japan In Europe.
Ie is an extraordinary thing that while some nations can scarcely Keep. going within. their own. doe mains, armament "firms are quite willing to trust. them and to give them" credit for buying. war material. The Chinese, we are told, are determined to do' their best to Which the Commission stand up against this enemy which in ruthlessly and in defiance of their treaty engagements occupying. vast stretches of their country. T should like the Fight hon. Gentleman to fell me categorically what is the position of the League' of Nations With regard to the Japanese occupation of Manchoukuo. Are we to take it-as an accomplished fact, and are all the ations given to the Japanese 'n one form or another to by the board? It is no use the right hon. Gentleman replying to meos he' did ona. previous occasion to one of my colleagues, by asking if we want to go to war. There was at any rate an inference that we were very bellicose about it T put it to the right hon. Gentl man that it is no use taking that Tine with us,
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