§ SIR GEORGE BADEN-POWELL (Liverpool, Kirkdale)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can give any further details as to the reported seizure of the British schooner Black Diamond in Behring's Sea, especially as to the precise locality of the seizure and the distance from the nearest land; and, whether the schooner has since been released; and, if so, on what, if any, conditions?
§ MR. GOURLEY (Sunderland)When will the Correspondence with the Governments of the Dominion and States regarding the Behring Sea seal fisheries, as well as those of Canada and Newfoundland, be laid upon the Table of the House?
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir J. FERGUSSON,) Manchester, N.E.No information has been received on the subject at the Foreign Office, Admiralty, or Colonial Office. As regards the presentation of Papers, I can only refer the hon. Member for Sunderland to my answer on June 4 of last year. The reasons which I then stated are equally operative now.