HC Deb 03 March 1887 vol 311 c1079
DR. TANNER (Cork Co., Mid)

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If it is true that the Chinese garrisons in Turkestan are being strongly reinforced; and, whether this reinforcement has been carried out in pursuance of an understanding between China and England for the protection of the latter's Eastern Empire?

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

No information on the subject has reached Her Majesty's Government.