§ MR. SLAGGasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether it is true that France has proposed an agreement with Portugal to the effect that Portugal may take the south bank of the Congo on condition that Portugal will raise no objection to the annexation by France of the north bank; and, whether Her Majesty's Government is prepared to recognize such a transfer of the assumed rights of Portugal in that region?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICESir, Her Majesty's Government have received no information of any such proposed agreement.