§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in view of the abolition of Mixed Courts in Japan, and the consequent diminished duties of the British Consuls in that country, will he state whether any revision of the staff at the Kobe Consulate has yet been considered; and, if so, will he say what changes it is proposed to make.
* THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Lord GRAN-BORNE, Rochester)There is no reason to suppose that the duties imposed on the Consular Staff at Kobe have been materially lightened by the cesser of His Majesty's extra-territorial jurisdiction in 1270 Japan and the consequent withdrawal of the judicial establishment. The question of the revision of the Consular Staff has therefore not arisen.