HC Deb 11 July 1881 vol 263 c501
MR. NORTHCOTE

asked The Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If Her Majesty's Government have any information as to the truth of the report published in several daily newspapers of the intention of the French Government to mobilise a force of 120,000 men?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

Sir, we have reason to believe that there is no intention on The part of The French Government to mobilize any force at all.