§ MR. F. E. SMITH (Liverpool, Walton)To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Japanese are actively doing business in Harbin, Moukden, and other towns in Manchuria, although merchants other than those of Japanese nationality are not permitted to go there for business purposes; and whether he will take prompt steps to secure to British traders equal rights with the Japanese.
§ manufactured by the trade in the years mentioned or at any other time. No Lee-Enfield carbines have been made at Sparkbrook. The following Lee-Enfield carbines were made at Enfield:—
§ (Answered by Secretary Sir Edward Grey.) His Majesty's Government were informed on inquiry at the close of last year that only Japanese commercial people, who were practically in the employ of the naval and military authorities, were allowed to travel on business in Manchuria, and that only in connection with the Army and Navy. The evacuation by the Japanese troops having made much progress, the Japanese Government announced some time ago that from the 49 1st of May this year, foreigners and foreign vessels should be free to enter Antung and Tatungkau, and that from the 1st of June Mukden and the whole of Manchuria in the occupation of Japan, outside the leased territory, was to be open to trade and residence to Japanese and foreigners alike, so far as military exigencies permitted. There is, therefore, no need of representations to the Japanese Government on the subject. We have no information as to the position of affairs at Harbin, which is still in Russian occupation.