§ 35. Mr. GRAHAM WHITEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if 805 he has any information with regard to recent regulations affecting the status of girl slaves in China?
Mr. A. HENDERSONThe hon. Member will find some information on this subject on page 71 of Command Paper 3424 of 1929. No more recent information has reached the Foreign Office.
§ Mr. WHITEWill the right hon. Gentleman make inquiry into the authenticity or otherwise of the' statement in the "Times" newspaper last week to the effect that two edicts abolishing the state of slavery in China had been issued?
Mr. HENDERSONThat information has not reached me, and I am afraid that I cannot give myself up to following these newspaper statements.