HC Deb 22 July 1925 vol 186 cc2176-7
14. Captain WEDGWOOD BENN

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is able to make any announcement as to the policy of the Government in reference to a judicial inquiry into the Shanghai disorders and the immediate summoning of a conference of the Powers?

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

Communications regarding these matters are still passing between the interested Powers, and I would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland on the 16th July.

Captain BENN

May we assume it is the intention of the Government that an impartial and judicial inquiry shall be held?

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

This is the very matter on which I have appealed to the House to excuse me from making a passing statement until a full statement is possible. Our object is to see that justice is done to all parties, and done in a way that convinces all parties that justice is done.

15. Mr. BECKETT

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Mixed Diplomatic Commission appointed to inquire into the Shanghai shootings had access to the published evidence taken in the trial at Shanghai before the Mixed Court of the persons who had been arrested in connection with the strike?

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

As the Commission did not leave Shanghai to return to Peking until a week after the trial it may be presumed that they were aware of the published evidence.