CENTRAL ASIA—THE AFGHAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION—SIR PETER LUMSDEN.

HC Deb 30 April 1885 vol 297 c1126

MR. O'KELLY

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether his attention has been called to a paragraph in The Indian Statesman of the 7th April 1885, which states— The prospects of a peaceful settlement with Russia would be hopeful, but for the prostitution of Sir Peter Lumsden's Mission to open intrigue, by lavish bribery with the tribes; and, whether Her Majesty's Government have asked Sir Peter Lumsden for any explanation of the alleged intrigues of the Mission with the Turkoman tribes, against the Russian Government in Central Asia?

MR. GLADSTONE

I am not aware there have been any intrigues of any sort between Sir Peter Lumsden and the Turkomans; and, that being so, the Question has no bearing.