since the outbreak of hostilities:
3.
that no helo has been
afforded to China by our armed forces in Shanghai, which
have been kept strictly for police business, defending the International Settlement; that arms supplied to China from
British sources have been in inconsiderable quantities and
less in amount than those supplied to Japan: and that failing a prohibition of export to both sides (a measure so far
adopted by no Power in the world) there is no means of
controlling despatch of available unitions without
intervening on one side or the other.
If this could be done, and I could be informed
sufficiently in advance, I can arrange with Domel to secure wide publicity here.
2. In article in 'The Times' (on the day following the
answer in Parliament) taxing the same line; stating, however
great may be honest differences of opinion in regard to origins of Sino-Japanese dispute and subsequent developments, it would be foolish to allow an old friendship to be destroyed by avoidable misconception but that a continuance of present
campaign of misrepresentation aimed exclusively at Great
Britain can only lead to conclusion that Japan deliberately wants to pick a quarrel with us.
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