PAYING THE PIPER

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 62, 15 March 1927, Page 9

PAYING THE PIPER

THE BRITISH TAXPAYER

(Received 15th March, noon.)

LONDON, 14th March,

Sir Austen Chamberlain,' in reply to questions in the House of Commons, stated that the municipality of the International Settlement at Shanghai had not been asked nor had it offered to pay any part of the cost of the British Defence Force. All the Powers interested had made their own naval and military preparations at their own expense; He had not advised Sir Miles Lampson to discuss with the Soviet Charge d'Affaires at Pekin Russia's alleged breaches in China of the AngloBussian Trade Agreement concerning propaganda. Mr. L. C. M. Amery confirmed the Press reports that seven Chinese had been killed and fourteen wounded, and one European inspector and four native polieement wounded at Singapore when a mob attempted to rush the police station. Mr. O. Mosley (Lab.): "Was a warning given before firing!" Mr. Amery: "I presume so, but I have no information beyond the above." ; Mr. Thomas Williams (Lab.): "Will syeh actions improve our relations with China?"