§ 4. Mr. POTTERasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that His Majesty's Chinese Secretary of Legation is proceeding home on leave at the same time as the British Minister, and to whom British interests in China will be entrusted in the absence of the two senior representatives?
§ Mr. EDENThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. But my hon. Friend appears to be under a misapprehension; Mr. E. M. B. Ingram, Counsellor to His Majesty's Legation in China, is the officer next in rank to His Majesty's Minister and would in any event act as chargé d'affaires in Sir Miles Lampson's absence.