§ 17. Sir A. M. SAMUELasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will ascertain and state whether the Japanese Government intend to control the Manchurian Customs?
§ Mr. EDENThe Japanese Government have informed us that they share our desire to see the integrity of the Chinese Maritime Customs maintained. Control of the Manchurian Customs by the Japanese Government would be entirely inconsistent with these assurances.
§ Sir A. M. SAMUELWill my hon. Friend put a further question to the Japanese Government and ask them—perhaps he may have the information already—whether they allocate the amount of the old service of the Chinese loans raised from British investors to the authorities which have hitherto received that amount?
§ 23. Mr. RHYS DAVIESasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Japanese Prime Minister, in a recent declaration, stated that it was the policy of the Japanese Government to afford the protection of its armed forces to the so-called independent Government in Manchuria: and whether, in view of our obligations as a member of the League and a signatory of the Washington Nine Power Treaty, His Majesty's Government will point out to the Japanese Government that this policy constitutes a violation of Article X of the Covenant and Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Nine Power Treaty?
§ Mr. EDENMy information is that the declaration of the Prime Minister was not as stated by the hon. Member. The second part of the question does not, therefore, arise.