§ 28. Lieut.-Colonel MOOREasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the strength of troops, military and naval, of the various Governments now quartered at Tientsin and Peiping?
§ Mr. EDENHis Majesty's Government maintain one battalion in North China. The following are the approximate 1612 strengths, as on 1st May, of the other foreign garrisons there: American, 1,380; French, 1,820;Italian, 380; Japanese, 2,000.