Part of Oral Answers to Questions — China. – in the House of Commons am ar 15 Gorffennaf 1925.
Mr Edwin Scrymgeour
, Dundee
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is now aware of the evidence in the Mixed Court proceedings at Shanghai that the demonstrators gathered before the police station on 30tE May were entirely unarmed; that the police officer who gave the order to fire admitted that the students were six feet away when the police started shooting; that he gave the order in English; that the shooting began 10 seconds after the warning had been given, and that more than 40 bullets were fired, the firing lasting for several minutes; and what action he proposes to take in the matter?
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.