HC Deb 10 August 1888 vol 330 c324
SIR WALTER B. BARTTELOT (Sussex, N.W.)

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Lieutenant Wissmann, who has lately been received by the King of the Belgians and the Emperor of Germany, is about to accompany an Expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha; and, if so, what is the nature of that Expedition?

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

Her Majesty's Government have no knowledge of any such Expedition as that referred to.