§ MR. R. A. YERBURGH (Chester)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the British Military Attaché in China lives at Shanghai; whether he has ever visited the northern provinces of China; and whether, if he is required at Shanghai, another Military Attaché can be stationed at Pekin?
MR. CURZONWe do not know whether Colonel Brown, the British Military Attaché in China, lives at Shanghai. He is at present, or was quite recently, in the northern provinces of China, having been at Kirin in Manchuria. There is no need for two Military Attachés in China, the services of the present officer being at the disposition of Her Majesty's Minister at Pekin.