BRITAIN AND CHINA

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 24 January 1929, Page 11

BRITAIN AND CHINA

NATIONALIST REGIME

KEEPING IN TOUCH

TROOPS. AT SHANGHAI

British Official. Wireless. (Received 24th January, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 23rd January. Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, was asked in tho Houso of Commons to-day ■ about the consultatations between Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister in China, and tho Nanking Government. He replied that Sir Miles Lampson had returned to the North, but there were many matters still to be settled between the two Governments. Replying to a further question, Sir Austen Chamberlain said that Nanking was the official capital of the Nationalist Government, but the transfer of the administration to tho new seat of Gov- | ernment was not completed and difficulties in regard to accommodation made it impossible for the British Minister to reside there. Arrangements were being made for a member of the British Legation staff to reside at Shanghai as the Minister's personal represeuI tative, and to visit Nanking as and when required, to keep in touch with the National Government. Asked when the remaining units of the Shanghai Defence Force would bo withdrawn from China, Sir Austen Chamberlain said the Government had no desire to keep troops in Shanghai a day longer than was necessary, but at i present the conditions were not such as to admit of a total withdrawal, although the numbers had been steadily reduced. .