EASTERN UNREST
BRITISH MEASUBE PROTECTION OF INTERESTS | IBrltlih Offlslal Wircleii.) (Received June 16, noon.) RUGBY, June 15. Questioned about troop and naval movements in the Far East, the Foreign Secretary replied in the House of Commons that routine measures for the protection of centres of British interest in the area involved in the present disturbed situation have been taken. These measures consist in holding in readiness at Hong Kong a battalion for the possible reinforcement of the British garrison at Shanghai, and in the formulation of plans for the dispatch in emergency of units of the China Fleet to the port affected.
Mr. Eden would not answer a question based on a hypothesis of SinoJapanese hostilities, except to say that every effort would be made to keep the international settlement at Shanghai free of all hostilities.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 9
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136EASTERN UNREST Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 9
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