London, May 10. TPUE situation at Shanghai was once ay the subject of a barrage of questions in the-House of Commons yesterday, keeping Mr. R. A. Butler, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, extremely occupied.
Questions related to the recent incidents at Shanghai between Japanese troops and British servicemen, the claims of Britons for compensation for damage to their property, a revival of industry in the International Settlement, the Chinese Maritime Customs, and conditions on the Shanghai-Nanking' Railway.
Mr. Arthur Henderson, Labour member for the Kingswinford division of Staffordshire, set the ball rolling by asking what steps had been taken with a view to preventing a repetition of the recent incidents at Shanghai between Japanese soldiers and British servicemen.
Incidents of this kind, Mr. Butler replied, were always liable to occur in' the conditions ruling in the Shanghai area. 'The British Government, he added, was doing its utmost by negotiation' and remonstrance to avoid @ recurrence of such incidents.
Mr, A. C, Moreing, Conservative member for' Preston, then drew attention te the difeulty of reviving Industry In the Industrial part of the International Settlement.
He alleged that this was owing-to Chinese women's refusal to work in Japanese factories for fear of molestation and the refusal of the Japanese authorities to remove restrictions fon Chinese and foreign-owned factorjes as long as Japanese factories remained closed.
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