§ MR. RAIKESasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Her Majesty's Government are in possession of any information which they can give to the House in confirmation or refutation of the reports which have been lately in circulation to the effect that British skilled artisans recently dismissed from the Royal Dockyards in this Country are now employed in building ships in Russian Dockyards?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELD, in reply, said, he had taken steps to obtain information from St. Petersburg with reference to the reports that skilled British artisans recently dismissed from the Royal dockyards, were employed in building ships 160 in Russia, but an answer had not yet been received.