London, June 16.
"The Foreign Office has received no evidence to show that Japanese officials have ordered Chinese traders fo cease selling British and American goods," declared Mr. R.A, Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the House of Commons yesterday, in reply to Mr, Neil Mac~ Kean, Labour Member for the Govan Division, Glasgow.
Reporis of the casualties as a result of Japanese air raids on Canton. Indicated that between 3,500 and 4,000 tad been killed and wounded between May 28 and June 6, Mr. Butler revealed at question time.
Ta response to British protests to the Japanese Government with re-gerd to the raids, "preliminary ob-Seryations" had been made to Sir Robert Craigie. British Ambassador in Tokyo, by Gen. Kazushige Ugak. Japanese' Foreign Minister, Mr. Butler went on. Gen. Ugaii. Mr. Butler declared. had promised send "considered reply" to the British Government's protest,
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