The Archive · 1937

Commons Statement 'on China

London, May 26.

Viscount Cranborne, Under Seeretary of State for Foreign Affairs, gave jeesurance in the House of Commons [day that no alteration would be in treaties between Great Britain and China after any negotia tions with Japan, without the willing Jeonsent of China. No such negotiations, he added, were going on at present, The Secretary of Stale for the Colonies, Mr. William Ormsby-Gore, was then asked whether he would consider the appointment of a high Colonial or Foreign Office representative to the Hongkong University Enquiry Committee and replied that the Committee hod already. com= pleted its report and copies would be Feceived in due course—Reuter.

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