Sir Alfred Knox, Conservative member for the Wycombe division of Buckinghamshire, asked frst if Mr. Eden was aware that in the recent norations in the neighbourhood of Shanghai the Japanese had done their best to spare the foreign busi nows and residential arcus in the ternational Settlement, and second it he would "approach ' the Japanese Government with a view to oblaining security for Chinese refugees to rolurn to their normal occupations, was premature at the present stazo, the Foreign Secretary replied. to allempt a nal judgment on the
question, Print raised in the frat part of the Rownrding the second. Mr. Eden declared, it was not clear whether Iiniiintive on. the part of the Rrilish Government wax called for.
The matter. he said, wax chiefly one for the Municinal authorities of the International Settlement. He feared that probably. to. a latite extent, it wie still" physically impossible for
nations, refugees to return {o their normal oe-
Li. Cmdr. L. R. Fletcher, Labour Member for the Nuneator division of Warwickshire, asked whether any information had been received from the Javanese Government that they intended to take over in the Inter~ national Settlement and French Concession all those Governmental func-riy hitherto exercised by the Chinese Government, Mr. Eden asked for notice of the question Reuter London, Nov. 24.
The sublet of collections by. the Chinese Maritime Customs in North China was raised in the House of Commons to-day by Me. Arthur Henderson, Labour member for the Kineswinford division of Stafford shire, who asked whether the Japanese authorities still held Customs collections in North China and what extent they wore making mittanees against Toan obligations.
Tu reply Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, said his information was that the Customs revenues collected in Tientsin and Chingwantao were being banked in the name of the Tnspector-General of Customs the Yokohama Specie Bank, and that remittances were being made, thouyth not regularly, nor in adequate amount, (On the subject of the seizure of Customs Inunches by the Japanese for military purposes. Mr, Eden said flour to ¥.010 from Y.0%4 per bag.—Domei-
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