§ Mr. WARDLAW-MILNEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that copies of a British newspaper published in Tientsin have been seized in the local post office under order of the local propaganda committee of the Kuomintang, and that the reason given for this action is the publication in that paper of an article protesting against the broadcasting by the committee of circulars alleging that missionaries come to China for the purpose of trafficking in drugs and arms; and, seeing that this is an illegal action by a local party committee and constitutes an attack upon the rights of British subjects against which the Chinese Government was solemnly warned in the Aide Memoire of 20th December, 1929, what action does he propose to take in the matter?
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Mr. A. HENDERSONCopies of the newspaper in question have been seized by the censors at Tientsin, who allege that the paper has attacked the local Kuomintang. Sir Miles Lampson has made representations on the subject to the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs.