London, June 19.
The Sino-Japanese situation North China was the subject of ques-Hons in the House of Commons today. Capt. C. Erskine-Bolst, Conservative Member for Blackpool, asked whether, in view of develop" ments in China producing serious re-Percussions on the peace and security the world, the Foreign Secretary would consider what steps could token 'In conjunction with other Powers to minimise the constant infraction of treaties which was "now occurring' in the Far East Sir Samuel Hoare replied:—"I am Inquiring about the foots, and, until they have definitely been established, Tam tot in a position (0 consider anything further"
Mr, Morgan Jones, Labour Mem ber for ihe Caerphilly division of Glamorgan. inquired. whether Britain was hooping in the closest touch with the United States in connection with developments in Chins was the reply of the Foreign Secretary.
in answer to a question by Major Henry Proctor, Conservative Member {or "Accrington, Sir Samuel. Hoare said the Government was under no Cbligation inthe matter of Chinese fategrity, except in connection with the Covenant of the League of NatWons- and. the Nine-Power Treaty.
Me, Tom Williams, Labour Member for ihe Don Valley of Yorkshive, desired to know whether Britain, at a signatory of the Nine-Power Treaty, hhad'an obligation to Intervene in Who dispute. If Beitain had no oblig tion, he said, what was the value of her signature, The Foreign Secretary replied that was necessary for the facts to be Jestablished before he was able" to deal with more general questions of that kind.
Answering Mr. B..W. Gardner, Labour Member for the Upton div sion of West Ham, Sir Samuel Hoare Said he was unable to state at preseat whether the Japanese action in North China could be described as involving a breach of the Nine-Power
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