THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 4, 1989.
LABOUR SUSPICIONS OF GOVERNMENT INTENTIONS
Mr. Butler
Hard I
Pressed On Tientsin Issue
London, To-day.
Questions about the four Chinese alleged terrorists, which gave immediate rise to the Tientsin situation, evoked a statement from the Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, in the House of Commons yesterday.
Mr. Butler said he was unable to add anything to what had already been said, in view of the im- pending start of the Tokyo conversations.
MALTA'S
LONDON STILL
DEFENCES TESTED
Lodon, To-day.
Britain's determination to se- cure the most efficient defence of Malta is apparent daily, says the "Daily Telegraph.”
Only a month ago combined operations with a black-out were held.
Now, further military exercises are being held, necessitating two consecutive black-outs. Our Own Correspondent.
Mr. Philip Noel-Baker (Labour) asked if it might JAP STATEMENT
be assumed that the Government would not
hand over the four Chinese until proof had been ON BORDER
shown that they were guilty of murder.
Mr. Butler said that that was al
-matter which would be discussed OBITUARY at the coming negotiations.
He denied that the Government had gone back on the statement that they would not hand over the men until some evidence was forth- coming that they were guilty.
́. Mr. Arthur Greenwood (Labour)
·asked for a definite assurance that the men would not be handed over pending the negotiations.
NO INTENTION Mr. Butler said there was no intention of handing them over -pending the negotiations.
CLASHES
KEEPING A "CLOSE WATCH"
London, To-day.
Mr. M P. Price (Labour) asked
a question in the House of Com- mons yesterday concerning the es- tablishment of the Hua Hsing Bank (a Japanese-controlled institution) in Shanghai and the effect thereof.
Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secre- tary for Foreign Affairs, said the situation was being "closely watch- ed" by the departments concerned.
Mr. Price asked if the British Government had any actual pro- posals to deal with this danger.
Mr. Butler: One cannot always îndicate one's intentions but Mr. Price may rest assured that the The Japanese Embassy in Lon-matter is fully under consideration.
Reuter.
London, To-day.
LORD MOUNT don has issued a statement detail-
TEMPLE
LONDON, TO-DAY. THE DEATH OCCURRED YES- TERDAY OF LORD WILFRID WILLIAM ASHLEY MOUNT TEMPLE, ELDEST SON OF THE LATE RT. HON. EVELYN ASH- LEY AND HIS FIRST WIFE, SYBELLA, WILLIAM FARQUHAR, HE DIED DAUGHTER OF SIR AT THE AGE OF 72 YEARS.
In regard to the situation at Kulangsu, Mr. Butler said that the Japanese Consul-General's further proposals to the Kulangsu Muni- Lord Mount Temple was educat-' cipal Council were now being con-ed at Harrow and Magdelen Col- sidered.
His latest information was that large quantities of firewood and beans had been landed off British ships at Kulangsu recently," and food supplies continued to arrive.
IF THEY WISHED TO LEAVE 2 In regard to Foochow and Wen- chow, Mr. Butler said that ar- rangements were being made for the evacuation of Britons wishing to leave Foochow
Ayrshire Militia from 1886 to 1889, lege, Oxford. He served with the
the Grenadier Guards from 1889 to 1898 and the Hampshire Militia: from 1899 to 1903. extensively in Africa and America, He travelled
the Blackpool Division, 1906 to He was M.P. (Conservative) of 1918, Lancashire from 1918 to 1922, and
of the Fylde Division the New Forest Division of Hamp- shire from 1922 to 1932. From 1911 to 1913, he was a Conserva- tive Whip.
of
manded the 20th... Battalion King's During the Great War, he com-
Regiment, 1914-1915.
Although at present there were no British ships in harbour, the Japanese naval authorities had un- dertaken to give safe passage for those wishing to leave until July 6.Liverpool
Lord Halifax, said Mr. Butler, From 1922 to 1923, he was Parlia understood that the foreign com-mentary Secretary in the Ministry munity at Wenchow proposed to of Transport, from 1928 to 1924 remain. There were 11 British Under-Secretary of State for War subjects there.
BLOCKADE
Mr. Noel-Baker asked if booms had been made and if these Treaty Ports were in fact blockaded.
Mr. Butler was understood to reply that what amounted to a blockade was taking place.
The British Government had made their position, quite clear in regard to the blockade, he con- cluded. Reuter
and from November, 1924 to June 1929 he was Minister of Transport.
Sometime Chairman of the Navy League and Chairman of the Com rades of the Great War, he was Chairman of the Anti-Socialist Union and President of the Anglo- German Fellowship.
He married his first wife, Maud, oldest child of the late Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Cassel, in 1901, and they had two children, both INSULTS TO BRITONS daughtera. Following her death in Questioned on insults sustained 1911, Lord Mount Temple married by British nationals in Tientsin, again, in 1914, the Hon. Mrs. Mr. Butler replied: "Until this Forbes-Sempill, of Fownhope Court, morning there had been no reports; Hereford. He was created Mount for some days of British subjects Temple, First Baron of Lee, being subjected to indignities. The County of Southampton, in 1932- Foreign Secretary has not received. Reuter Any official confirmation of the in- cident reported in the press to-day Involving a young British subject,
His Majesty's Ambassador. has been instructed to inform the Ja panese Government that any berate ill-treatment of British
ave no ončial
kuccess
ing the recent clashes on the Outer necessary self-defence in the face Mongol border.
of repeated and persistent pro- The statement declares that the vocations by the Soviet-Mongolian general attack launched at the forces, and there was no other in : week-end against the Soviet- tention than to ensure the safety Mongolian troops was taken "in of the frontier."-Reuter.
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