§ MR. ARTHUR ARNOLDasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether there is the slightest foundation for the statement which had appeared in several of the newspapers to the effect that under the Lorenço Marques Treaty a portion of Portuguese territory bad been ceded to Great Britain?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKENo, Sir; there is not the slightest foundation for the statement in question.