§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEI wish to ask the noble Lord the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he has received any information which he can communicate to the House with regard to the movements of the Russians on the Afghan Frontier?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEThere is a telegram from Tirpul, dated April 23, which was received at the Foreign Office on April 26, in which Sir Peter Lumsden mentions a Report having been received by the Governor of Herat, and forwarded by him, that the Russians had advanced 30 miles south of Pul-i-Khisti and occupied Maruchak; and in a telegram dated the 25th, and received to-day, Sir Peter Lumsden, among other things, alludes incidentally to the "recent occupation of Maruchak" by the Russians.