PROTECTING BRITISH INTERESTS
* ROUTINE MEASURES TAKEN IN CHINA UJUITISU OFFICIAL WIUELES3.) RUGBY, June 15. Questioned about troop and naval movements in the Far East, the Foreign Minister (Mr R. A. Eden) replied in the House of Commons that routine measures for the protection of the centres of British interest in the area involved in the present disturbed situation had been taken. These measures consist in the holding in readiness at Hong Kong of a battalion for the possible reinforcement of the British garrison at Shanghai, and in the formation of plans for the dispatch, in an emergency, of units of the China Fleet to the port affected. Mr Eden would not answer a question based on the hypothesis of hostilities between China and Japan, except to say that every effort would be made to keep the international settlement at Shanghai free of all hostilities.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21811, 17 June 1936, Page 11
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