None Demanded of Japanese Government London, Nov. 22.
No compensation had been paid by the Japanese Government to Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, the British Ambassador to China, who was wounded by a Japanese machine-gun bullet, declared the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, in the House of Commons today in reply to a question by Cmdr. O. Locker-Lampson, Conservative member for the Handsworth division of Birmingham.
Mr. Eden recalled that compensation had not been demanded by the British Government.
Mr. Locker-Lampson asked if this was not an occasion when the British Government ought to ask for some compensation for the loss of health and injury suffered by the In connection with the scheme, which the foreign embassies and Chinese officials in the capital have formulated for a neutral zone in Nanking, the following official statement from the spon-sore has been issued:
"In order to avoid possible misunderstanding from premature reports, it is now announced that a group of foreign nationals in Nanking has prepared a scheme for a safety zone in that city.
"The scheme has been presented to the Chinese authorities, and is being forwarded to the Japanese command through the foreign embassies, which are providing special radio facilities.
"The details of the plan, which is for the protection of civilian refugees, will be available as soon as the communication has been delivered in Shanghai."—Reuter, No official information as to the plan has been received by the Japanese, according to a Japanese spokesman yesterday. Until this information had been tendered, he refused to make any comment.
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The Foreign Secretary replied in the negative.
After careful consideration, he added, the British Government thought that it would be more in consonance "with the importance of the occasion to make compensation themselves.—Reutér.
Chinese defence at Pingwang, Chinese troops are still holding a number of points on the Soochow-Kashing Railway, the Wusih report added.
About 17 kilometres south-west of Kashing the new Chinese positions are at Tunghsiang, while Wushing, a famous silk-producing town on the Nanking-Hangchow Highway some 60 kilometres north of Hangchow, is still
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