HM. Government has decided that British troops in north China should abandon the practice, which) was not clearly authorized by the protocol of September 7, 1901, carrying out exercises beyond the Great Wall 'This was the reply made_to.day by Sir John Simon, the Foreign) Secretary, to a question asked in the House of Commons by Mr. Morgan Jones, Labour member for the Caerphilly' division of Glamorganshirs regard to the joint communication from local representatives of the) Japanese Army and Manchurian} authorities, which was received on June 26 by the commanding office:
the British troops at Shanhai. euan. The communication expressed) the view that British troops shoul not enter the "soil of the Manchoukuo Empire."
Sir John declared that, as HM] Government did not desire to. be Grawn into a discussion on juridical questions, it had decided that British} troops in north China should aban. don the practice of carrying out mercies beyond the Great Equally suitable ground, he added, inside the Great Wall, was available for thie purpose. This statement was greeted by an outbreak of "The British Foreign Secretary] concluded by declaring he had no] Feason to think that the decision of HEM. Government would be changed, although the "embargo" applied to troops of other nations—Reuter.
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