HC Deb 27 August 1886 vol 308 c659
MR. BROOKE ROBINSON (Dudley)

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Her Majesty's Government have any information as to an alleged Convention between the Government of Japan and certain German Traders, giving to Germany the entire monopoly for a period of eight years of supplying all steel rails required for Japan?

THE UNDER SECRETAEY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)

No such information has been received by Her Majesty's Government.