§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If Her Majesty's Government has information whether the north-east corner of Persia, in the direction of Sarakhs, has been delimited; and, if so, whether Persia has surrendered her claims to any of the cultivated tracts about Sarakhs, or to any portion of the right bank of the Harirud, thence upwards towards Phul-i-Khatum, or of the left bank downwards towards the Tejend swamp?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEAccording to the information in the possession of Her Majesty's Government, the delimitation of the frontier between Russia and Persia, in the direction mentioned by the hon. Member, has not taken place. The Russians have occupied Old Sarakhs, on the right bank of the Herirud. I do not think it would be advisable for me to make any statement as to the claims of Persia in the districts referred to in the last part of the hon. Member's Question.
§ MR. E. STANHOPEasked whether the noble Lord proposed to lay on the Table the Correspondence with reference to the subject of delimitation?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEsaid, he had no present intention of laying it on the Table; but he would communicate with the Foreign Secretary on the subject.