HC Deb 18 June 1888 vol 327 c445
MR. HOWORTH (Salford, S.)

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If the rumour, which appears in the papers, is true that a Russian officer has taken possession of the Port of Alifat, south of Tula, from which a road runs into Abyssinia?

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

We have no such information as is stated in my hon. Friend's Question.