HC Deb 15 May 1939 vol 347 c975
23. Mr. Robert Gibson

asked the Prime Minister where the permanent headquarters of His Majesty's Ambassador to China are now fixed?

Mr. Butler

His Majesty's Ambassador to China has permanent offices in Shanghai. This port has been found by experience to be the most convenient place from which the Ambassador can maintain touch with British interests and pay the necessary periodical visits to the headquarters of the Government to which he is accredited and to other places in China, such as Peking, at which branch offices of his Embassy are maintained.