THE WAR IN CHINA.
STATEMENTS IN THE BRITISH
PARLIAMENT.
Press Association. Electric Telegraph, Copyright.
London, TVf arch 29.
In. the House of Commons,, Lord Cranborne (Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs) stated that Mr McCleavy Brown, Commissioner of Cv toms in Korea, had not been dismissed. A settlement with regard to the matter was probable.
In the House of Lords, Lord Lamv downe, Foreign Minister, stated that the Anglo-German agreement applied to all of China, including Manchuria, Britain, said his Lordship, \vas ; indisposed to earpingly criticise -Russian arrangements which would temporarily protect her interests. The Manchuria published versions of the Convention appeared to infringe Britislv rights there and elsewhere.; wiser Russia published the test of the Convention, dissipating suspicions. Meanwhile Great Britain and Germany had, said Lord Lansdowhej advised- CKma to refrain from private separate agreements. : - .'■■■' V '
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXV, Issue 75, 1 April 1901, Page 2
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