§ Colonel DAYasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any protest has been made to the Nanking administration by the British Consul-General in China, either on the initiative of the Brtish Government or in consultation with the representatives of the other Governments in China, with reference to the additional Sur-tax which is being levied by the local authorities at Shanghai under instructions issued from Nanking?
§ Sir A. CHAMBERLAINA telegram has been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking reporting that on the 13th July the Consular body at Shanghai decided to address to the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at Shanghai, in the names of the Consular representatives of the United States of America, Norway, Great Britain, Japan, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Brazil, Italy and Switzerland, a protest against the Sur-tax on tonnage dues.