§ MR. MURRAYasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether his attention has been called to a statement in the "Times" of the 168 3rd instant, to the effect that Prince Bismark has announced that he has successfully recommended the discarding of those rules which oblige fishing vessels to carry red and green lights as dangerous and misleading; whether any official intimation to this effect has reached Her Majesty's Government; and, whether, as here rumoured, any other states have taken the same course?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, no official intimation to this effect has reached Her Majesty's Government. Nor has any information been received that any other States have taken such a course. Her Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin has been requested to report on the subject.