§ COLONEL KING-HARMANasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether there is any truth in the statement made in the leading article of The Times of Friday the 1st, to the effect that it was intended to dispose of the gunboats and other appliances and stores which had been collected in Egypt, apparently with a view to the relief of General Gordon?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEI am informed that the War Office have no knowledge of the report referred to, nor do they know to what it can refer.