§ 4. Colonel YATEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he has now received the reply from Pekin stating the date when the leases of the buildings belonging to the German Consulate, bank, post-office, and trading firms in the British Concession of Shameen, in China, were terminated and all the Germans turned out of Shameen?
§ Lord R. CECILIt has been found necessary to issue new Trading With the 257 Enemy Regulations in China to deal with the question of the leases of these German buildings in the British Concession on the Shameen, and these are now being prepared.
§ Colonel YATEWhen will they come into effect, and when will the Germans be turned out of Shameen?
§ Lord R. CECILI cannot tell when they come into effect until they are ready.