HC Deb 15 February 1884 vol 284 c1020
SIR JOHN HAY (for Mr. STAVELEY HILL)

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, To state the exact terms of the cable message to General Gordon to which a portion of the message from General Gordon, quoted by the First Lord of the Treasury on Wednesday afternoon, appears to have been in answer?

LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE

The telegram from General Gordon to which the hon. and learned Member refers was not a reply to any telegram.