HC Deb 19 May 1881 vol 261 c803
MR. ERRINGTON

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the French Government has as yet communicated to the Foreign Office the long promised "decret" regulating the treatment of the oppressed Indian Coolies in the Island of La Réunion?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

Sir, the decree referred to has not yet been communicated to Her Majesty's Government; but Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris is in communication with the French Government respecting it.