HC Deb 13 June 1901 vol 95 c270
MR. GRETTON (Derbyshire, S.)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Shanghai is officially described by His Majesty's Government as within the area of the Tientsin Provinces, and if he can state the reasons which have been put forward by the German Government to justify the maintenance of a German military garrison in that city.

*VISCOUNT CRANBORNE

We have received no statement from the German Government bearing upon the retention of a German garrison there. Shanghai is in the province of Kiang-su, one of the provinces bordering on the Yang-tsze.

MR. JOSEPH WALTON (Yorkshire, W.R., Barnsley)

May I ask the noble Lord whether under the Anglo-German Agreement Germany is not acknowledged to possess the same rights and privileges in the Yang-tsze region as were claimed by Great Britain?

*VISCOUNT CRANBORNE

I must ask for notice of the question.

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