30. Mr. HAMMBRSLEY (for Mr. CHORLTON)asked the Postmaster-General whether, having regard to the decision of the League of Nations Advisory Committee, set up to study problems associated with the non-recognition of Manchukuo, he will, in view of the delay involved in the despatch of mails to Shanghai via Siberia by way of 565 Vladivostok, take measures to promote the forwarding of such mails through Manchukuo in the future?
§ Sir K. WOODThe decision of the League of Nations Advisory Committee to which my hon. Friend refers deals primarily with the question of settling International Postal Accounts, and has no direct bearing on the particular question of the routing of mails to Shanghai. So far as the latter problem is concerned, as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs said in reply to similar questions on 16th April last, the inconvenience caused by the suspension of the transit service through Manchuria for mails between this country and China has for some time past been engaging the attention of His Majesty's Government, and no proper opportunity will be lost of promoting a resumption of the service.