Mr. A, C. Moreing, Conservative member for Preston, inquired If the British Government would give every support. to the Shanghai Municipal Council in any resistance they may make to the Japanese demands, 'Mr, Eden: "Yes, that has already been' done,"
Mr. W, Gallacher, Communist member for West Fife, then asked; "Does Mr. Eden's carlier reply mean that Japan is continually breaking her promises?
Mr. Eden replied that Mr, Gallacher might draw any conclusion he liked from his answer.
It-Cmdr. E.R. Fletcher, Labour Jmember for the Nuneaton division of Warwickshire, asked If the Settle ment had ever been leased or ceded by the Chinese Government to the Governments concerned, or was international control only de facto The Foreign Secretary, in answer, stated that that was an entirely different question from the question on the paper, Col, J.C. Wedgwood, Labour member for "Neweastle-under-Lyme, said the matter was rather urgent as. Britons were being—foreibly restrained by the Japanese from entering their owr property Shanghol, and in the neighbourhood Shanghai. He asked if Mr. Aen would give full information next Friday what was happening in Shanchal.
The Foreign Secretary expressed willingness {0 do so at any time the question was put down in writing.
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