THE FAR EAST
INTERESTS OF BRITAIN PROTECTIVE MEASURES TAKEN (British OHlctai Wireless I RUGBY, June 15. Questioned about troop and naval movements in the Far East, the Foreign Secretary replied in tlie House of Coin mons that routine measures for the protection of centres of British interest in the area involved in the present distorted situation had been taken. These measures consist in the holding in readiness at Hongkong of a battalion for the possible reinforcement of the British garrison at Shanghai and in the formulation of plans for the despatch in emergency of units of the China fleet to the port affected. Mr Eden would not answer a question based on the hypothesis of Sino-Japancse 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22909, 17 June 1936, Page 9
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