BRITISH SHIPPING
DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN CHINA REPRESENTATIONS MADE TO JAPANESE INSTITUTIONS OF CONVOYS CONSIDERED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 6. Replying to questions in. the House of Commons today, Mr R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said: “According to reports from Shanghai it would appear that discrimination is in fact being practised against British shipping both on the Yangtse and other inland waterways of China. “Frequent representations have been made both in Tokio and Shanghai on this subject, and the British Ambassador in Tokio is continuing to impress Japan with the urgency of the matter. “The possibility of instituting some sort of convoy system has received consideration, but as far as I am aware there is at present no demand for it on the part of the shipping companies concerned.” The British Government, said Mr Butler, realised the importance of the question, and pressure would continue to be exercised on Japan.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1938, Page 7
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