§ Viscount WOLMERasked whether the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has admitted any other parties to the British group of the six-Power group; and whether any British houses, other than the Eastern Bank, approached His Majesty's Government or the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for admission to the British group?
§ Sir E. GREYThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. Applications by other British houses for admission to the British group have been received by His Majesty's Government, and an answer has in each case been returned to them similar to that given to the Eastern Bank and published in the correspondence recently laid before Parliament. I am not in a position to say who may or may not have approached the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.