HC Deb 30 April 1906 vol 156 cc235-6
LORD TURNOUR (Sussex, Horsham)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any official information showing that facsimiles of the cartoons depicting Chinamen in chains, issued in this country during the General Election, have been widely circulated in China, and have inflamed the lower class Chinese against this country.

THE SECRETARY TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. RUNCIMAN,, for Sir EDWARD GREY) Dewsbury

The information which I have received is to the effect that some agitation was aroused in China by criticisms of the Transvaal Labour Ordinance in 1904, but that it has since died away.