§ SIR EARDLEY WILMOTasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If it is true, as reported in a Bombay paper of 7th April, and copied into the "Homeward Mail" of 25th April, that a Russian force has left Samarcand, and was 50 miles on the high road to Balkh at the date of the report; and, whether the Russian Frontier is being pushed forward to Saracks, in the South of the Turkoman Country, a distance of only 150 miles from Herat?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, we have no information as to any Russian march southwards from Samarcand; but the Russian Frontier near Shahr-i-Sabz is itself some 30 or 40 miles on the road to Balkh, so that the hon. Baronet's Question is not very clear, because for 30 or 40 miles south they would be within Russian territory. As to Sarakhs, I have nothing to add to the reply which I made on the 3rd of March.