§ BARON HENRY DE WORMSasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he will explain his assertion, as given in The République Française, that correspondence of a strictly confidential character has taken place with the French Government on the subject of Tonquin, seeing that, since M. Challemel-Lacour was French Minister in London, no communication has passed on that subject?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEThe hon. Member has made a mistake in taking the account from The République Française, and not from The Times 757 newspaper. If he had referred to The Times he would have seen I never used the expression "confidential correspondence." I said that certain confidential communications had taken place, and that was perfectly correct.