Iservative member for the Stourbridge
What steps had been taken to prevent Biton of." Worcestershire, asked the Japanese censor at Tientsin from tampering with the British mails.
Mr, Butler said that the letter mail (Gig Of appear to have been inter-"with, but Lord Halifax, (the
jport$ of the detention of a certain (Foreign FS) had received re-"Shanghai British newspaper in AXigntsin.
Sir "Arehibüld Clark Kerr, the British Ambassador, in China, had been asked to report on what action "was best calculated to resolve the dimiculty. oMr. Hamilton Kerr, Conservative mimper for Oldham, drew Mr. But-_der's attention to the large trade in Sot s "Which had developed in bien factories in the Peiping and jin ares, and asked whether the Japanese military authorities are *€ncouraging and sanctioning the same."
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