§ MR. C. B. DENISONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If the Foreign Office has received from the Indian Government, or otherwise, any confirmation of the telegraphic news (from Berlin) published on Saturday last, of the Russian Government having assembled a large military force in Tashkend for offensive operation in the district of Pamir. The said district comprising on the west the sources of the 992 Oxus and its tributaries, and on the east and north the mountain passes of Yarkand?
§ MR. BOURKEIn reply to my hon. Friend the Member for the West Riding, I need hardly remind him that Her Majesty's Government have no Agents in these quarters. The Foreign Office have, therefore, no means of communicating with the district; but I have made inquiries at the India Office, and they have heard nothing of the alleged movement of troops in those parts.