London, Mar. 22
Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, announced—in the House of Commons yesterday that he was in communication with the British Consul-General in Shonghal (te, Herbert Phillips) regarding the desirability of representing to] the "Japanese Government that Japanese officers and soldiers in uniform should not enter the Central District of the International Settiement, which they do not occupy, £0) 8 to minimize the risk of incidents.
'The position regarding access. to wise British property in the Japancseoccupied area of the "Internationa! Butler said, "had recently improved. There' were, however, areas where access was still denied.
The Japanese authorities defended the continuance of these restrictions} on the ground of military necessity.
He hoped, however, that the representations being made would result in an improvement in the situation.
'Mr. A.C. Moreing. Conservative in formation in regard' to the Japanese: claim to exercise postal "censorship on foreign mails passing through Shanghai and the British protests on the subsect.
Mr, Butler said that no answer! had hitherto been received to the representations made by the British Consul-General at Shanghai and the British Embassy in Tokyo carly this month; but he had no. information in regard to any actual exercise of censorship, except that a few news paper messages were recently de-{tained for a short time.
The Japanese Embassy in Peipinx had informed the British represantafive there that no orders insisting on foreigners bowing ty Japanese! sentries had ever been clared the Prime Minister," Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in" reply to. questions in the Hotse of Commons yesterday.
The Japanese, he added, had sent instructions (0° Tsangchow,—where} the Rev. A. I J. Murray, of the: London " Missionary Society, was Assaulted recently by a Japanese! sentry, that if the practice existed there it should immediately be dis continued—Reuter,
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