§ MR. M'LAGANasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, What is being done to effect a settlement of the questions connected with British Mineral Oils in France, both as to claims and rates of import duty?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDSir, the question relating to British mineral oils, both as to claims and rates of import duty, would have been settled by the Protocol attached to the Treaty of the 5th of November last, and the inquiry into the claims had already been commenced before the mixed Commission at Paris. Her Majesty's Government are not yet informed of the views of the French Government with regard to the future proceedings of the Commission; but Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris has urged the settlement of these questions relating to mineral oils upon the attention of the French Government, in order that they may form part of any arrangement which may be come to in connection with the Treaty of Commerce of last year.