§ "That a sum, not exceeding £23,800, be granted to His Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1919, for Expenditure in respect of Diplomatic and Consular Buildings, and for the maintenance of certain Cemeteries Abroad."
§ Order read for resuming adjourned Debate on Question [2nd May], "That this House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolution."
§ Question again proposed.
§ Mr. WATTWhen this was before the Committee I took exception to it being passed. The object of my intervention was to raise objection to £2,500 being spent on Consular offices at Harbin, which is a district very much disturbed at the present time. I am informed that, instead of the amount being for buildings to be set up, this expenditure is to be on a site, which is quite a different thing from a building in a disturbed area. Therefore I take no objection to this being passed for a site.