Any such step as the occupation of Shanghai, the speaker added, would mean a -vital blow not only to Great Britain but to Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
The position in the Far East, Lord Elibank proceeded, was worse than never. The Yangtze Valley, tra tional area of British trade, was entirely closed to us despite the fact that the Japanese were trading all the time.
Currency and trade restrictions were growing worse owing to the Yokohama Specie Bank creating a Gollar of the same value as the National dollar, and insisting, wherever Threat to British Commander Fletcher asked if no retaliatory action was possible, Mr, Butler replied that Commander Fletcher should be aware that protests had been made to the authorities, and they had better await results, 3 In tracing the events which led to Mr. Tinkler's death, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, after narrating the action taken in connection with the- strikes which broke out in Pootung on May 20, said that on June 6'á clash occurred be-
Empire London, June 12.
"It is true to say that the British Empire made Japan—If we are not careful, Japan will unmake the British Empire," Lord Elibank declared in the House of Lords today just before the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, began his eagerly awaited address.—Havas. tween Chinese employees and strike agitators at the entrance to the Pootung mill of the China Printing and Finishing Company.
Japanese marines, he declared, were called in to restore order,
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