The Archive · 1938

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London, July 15, "Sir John Wardlaw-Milne can be assured that the Government have very fully and carefully studied the considerations which he raised"

This was the reply -which was given by Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to a question raised in the House of Commons yesterday, Sir John Wardlaw-Milne asked whether Sir John realized the immense importance which all British institutions in China attached to the possibility of a loan being guaranteed to the Chinese Government at the present time in some form or other.

Sir John Simon's reply was inaudible, owing to a temporary disturbance in the public gallery.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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