MR. GORST (for Mr. ASHMEAD-BART-LETT)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Government have any information as to the present relations between China and the French Republic; and, whether they have yet been able to tender their good offices to the French Government in order to prevent war?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICESir, Her Majesty's Government have no official information in regard to the present relations between China and the French Republic, and they have taken no action in the sense suggested by the hon. Member.