Sir John Haslam asked whether Mr. Butler's attention had been Grawn to the "rapid expansion' of the trade in narcotics in the Japanese obeupied area of Shanghai."
Mr. Butler, in reply, declared that information possessed by Lord Halifax led him to fear-that this might be the case.
Any formal representations to the Japanese Government, Mr. Butler added, must depend on the "nature of the further evidence now being collected.
Winding up yesterday's debate on behalf of the Opposition, Mr. A. V. Alexander, Labour member for the Hillsborough Dijvision of Sheffield, concluded a critical speech with a Special plea, for China.
"The position in the Far East, he said, was worsening weekly.
"The. Government. ha& not even got the guts' to adopt their own Geneva resolution," declared Mr. Alexander.
They heard little about the individual application of sanctions against Japan, or help for China, although, in China, 30,000,000 persons had been rendered homeless, and there had been 1,500,000 casualties within eighteen months.
Referring to the American loan to China, he said that they looked te the British Government to do something equally potent
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