London, Nov. 1.
The situation in China remained unchanged, declared Mr, R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the House of Commons today in answer to an invitation addressed to Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, to make a statement on the state of affairs in China, There had been fighting in Hunan and North Kiangsi, Mr. Butler said, and both sídes appeared to hold the same lines as before the recent Japanese offensive.
He was glad to aay that an agreement was reached on October 17 between the Municipal Council at Kulangsu and the Japanese Consul-General at Amoy (Mr. Goro Uchida) providing for the engagement of additional Japanese police officers, The American and Japanese landing parties were withdrawn the following day. he added.
There was no appreciable relaxation in the anti-British agitation in North China, Mr. Butler declared, although press reports today stated that orders had been given to ease the agitation.
Further representations, he added, had recently been addressed to the Japanese Government by Sir Robert Craigie. British Ambassador to Japan.—Reuter.
London, Nov. 2.
"British negotiations with Japan upon various questions, arising from the Japanese occupation of Chinese provinces, remain in suspense," says the diplomatic correspondent of "The Times."
"The Japarese Government," he continues, "is apparently waiting for the definite establishment of Mr. Wang Ching-wei's regime, on which it pins its hopes.
"It does not, however, appear that the regime will materialize just yet. since Japanese army leaders are opposing Mr. Wang Ching-wei's desire to include North China in his realm. He does not wish to be excluded from North China and further demands financial independence which, his patrons are loth to give him, "On the other side, the Chungking Government, though it seems greatly to have exaggerated recent military successes, is unquestionably of good heart and full of fight. Furthermore, the financial burden which the war lays upon Japan is as heavy as ever."
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