THE FAR EAST
TROOPS AND NAVAL MOVEMENTS PROTECTION OF BRITISH INTERESTS fßritish Official Wireless) (Received 16th June, 11.45 a.m.) RUGBY, 15th June. Questioned about troop and naval movements in the Far East, the Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, 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 had been taken. These measures consist in the holding in readiness at Hong Kong of a battalion for possible reinforcement of the British garrison at Shanghai, and in the formulation of plans for the despatch 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 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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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 16 June 1936, Page 5
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