London, Feb, 18.
Tne question of the decree modify ing the Chinese Maritime Customs tariff schedule in North China was brought up in the House of Commons to-day.
Mr. Patrick William Donner, Conservative member for the Basingstoke division of Hampshire, asked Mr. Anthony Eden, tne Foreign Secretary whether a reply had been received from the North Cnina "Provisional Government" to the British protest against the decree.
The British Government, Mr. Eden replied, was not in relations with th Peiping "Provisional Government,"
A reply, he added, was awaited to the protest which had hee" ^?dressed to the Japanese authorities in North China and by Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador in Tokyo, to the Japanese Government—Reuter.
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