Mr. Adrian Moreing, Conservative member for Preston, asked regarding ihe result of enquiries into a com-aint that Mrs. Sherwin (wife of Mr.
C. E. Sherwin, of Messrs, Bailey Perry, Solicitors, Hankow) had been refused permission by the Japanese to rejoin her husband in Hankow.
Mr. Butler replied that Mrs. Sherwin had hitherto been refused a pass by the Japanese authorities, for reasons which were rot clear, and which were being further investigated.
Mr. Moreing then asked: "Is Mr. Butler aware that one of the allegations against Mr. Sherwin is that he is anti-Japanese; is it not a fact that in Hankow Mr. Sherwin helped to remove the bombs that the Chinese left behind to impede the Japanese: and does not this show that the Japanese allegations are groundless?"
Mr. Butler replied that these matters would be taken into consideration in the further investigation to which he had referred.—Reuter.
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