London, June 2.
In reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that, Viscount "Halifax the Foreign Secretary, was urgently consulting the—British Consul-General at Tsingtao regarding the enforced transfers of accounts from British banks to Japanese or Jepanese-sponsored banks.
It had been reported from Tsingtao on May 18 that the Chinese Chamber of Commerce there, which is under Japanese military occupation, had instructed its members to withdraw their balances with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and the Chartered Bonk, and to do exchange business only through the Yokohama Specie Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank.—Reuter.
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