Lord Elibank said that matters in China had been going from bad to worste since he last raised the subject in February, while in Shanghai things were still very bad.
After referring to conditions on the Yangtze, and the position of British trade in Shanghai, Lord Elibank said that another notorious scandal was the quantity of Japanese goods entering Shanghai on the plea of being "military cargoes," whereas at the same time these goods were underselling foreign competitors, and were showing how wide an interpretation was being placed upon the term "military cargo.
No British ship, Lord Elibank went on to say, was allowed to go alongside the extensive wharves at Tsing-
London, July 27.
In view of the spread of disease and epidemics in China, the matter of the League of Nations increasing its grant for health work would be considered by the Council and the Committee of Technical Collaboration with China at the next meeting, declared Mr,' R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the House of Commons today.
The British Government, he said, would be prepared to give very sympathetic consideration to any proposal for a continuation of this anti-epidemic work in China by the League.
The Rev. R. Sorensen, Labour member for West Leyton, who was the original questioner, asked if that meant that the Government was guaranteeing support for an increased grant.
"Mr. Butler repeated the assurance that guch a discussion would have "our most sympathetic consideration." tao, while Japanese ships enjoyed all facilities.
If any German vessels visited the port, they were granted facilities as well, Lord Elibank alleged.
He suggested that this was a case where, perhaps, "one or two of His Majesties men-of-war might visit the port, and so obtain fair play for our shipping as well as that of other nationalities."
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