Asked by Sir John Warlaw-Milne it the Japanese were creating any machinery in connection with payments, Mr, Butler said he was unable to answer for the Japanese Gov-
From our point of view." he added, requisite steps have been taken."
London, May 11, The British Government would be glad to offer its services, cither alone Jor in conjunction with other Powers, bring about equitable peace be~ tween China and Japan, said Mr, Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, in the House of Commons today in reply to Mr, Tan Campbell Hannah, National Conservative member for' the Bilston division of Wolverhampton who asked whether, seeing that the war in China had fargely reached a deadlock, Mr. [Chamberlain would.consider offering British mediation or inviting the United States to join in mediation to, restore peace.
"We do not consider," Mr, Cham= berlain added, "that only useful purpose will be served by" offering mediation until both sides have me ted their willingness {0 accept Mr, Hannah then asked if the Japanese Government, in notifying of arrangements relating do the dis> posal of Chinese Customs revenues, had given assurance, or had made stalement, regarding the repeated complaints that Jupanese goods wore being admitted to Shanghai without payment of duty, 'Mr, R.A. Butler, the Under-Sceretary for Foreign Affairs, replied that, In Tecent discussions on' the Customs the Japanese Government had assured the British Government that it intended that normal conditions should be restored and payment of duty by alt Japanese importers should be tonsured at the earliest possible date.
Reuter, Mr. R.-D. Acland, Liberal member for the Barnstaple division of Devonshire, asked why the Burgos authorlties should be asked to pay at the conclusion of hostilities and the Japanese Government during. hostilltes.
Mr. Butler answered that there was: no invariable practice.
Mr. Moreing next asked whether the Government was aware that. the Japanese authorities hud refused to allow British railway officials to inspect the Shanghai-Nanking railway Hine on behalf of British mortgages of the railway's revenue, were themselves selling passenger tickets on the line, and what steps were being taken. This, the member for Preston said,.was'a serious breach of the loan agreement, Mr, Butler, in reply, declared that he was aware of the refusal to allow oan Inspection. In regard to the sale of tickets, he understood that permits travel on the line had been issued by the Japanese military authorities and permit holders had to pay fares.
Paris, May 10, Effective and collective ald to [China is requested in a Memo sent fo the Chairman of the League of Nations Council today by M.
Violette, Independent Senator' and former State Minister, fon behalf of an association, the "Friends of the Chinese People.
The Memo is Japanese ai Jgression in China" and asks that a resolution adopted by the League Assembly some time ago, providing for individual ald to China by couaries desiring to help, should be care ried cut, The Association, Friends of the Chinese People, is a. federation of 152 different French organizations, The message sent by this body veads, "China 1s giving a magnificent Jexample of her patriotism and ability to defend herself; it is up to the League of Nations to give her the means with which to paralyse the
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