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Volume 487: debated on Monday 7 May 1951

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57.

asked the Secretary of State for Foregn Affairs in what circumstances His Majesty's Consulates at Amoy, Chunking, Hankow, Kunming, Nanking and Tsingtao, are being closed; and whether permission to leave China has yet been given by the Chinese authorities to His Majesty's Consul-General in Shanghai.

For the first part of the Question I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Edge Hill (Mr. Irvine) on 21st March. The answer to the second part is, "Yes; he has now left China."