§ MR. HANBURYI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will lay upon the Table of the House the Despatches from the French and German Governments which caused the Foreign Office to desire the Emin Relief Expedition to adopt the Congo route instead of that from the East Coast; and whether objections similar to those successfully raised by the German Government in that instance were raised by the Foreign Office before the expeditions of Major Wissman and Emin Pasha started for the interior?
§ * SIR J. FERGUSSONThere are no such Despatches; but apprehensions were verbally expressed to Lord Iddes leigh that the approach of the Expedition might endanger the safety of the French and other Europeans at Uganda. The English missionary, Mr. Mackay, pointed out that the Report of the Thompson Expedition has caused the death of Bishop Hannington. No objections were raised by the German Government. No similar objections were raised in the cases referred to in the second paragraph, seeing that assurances were spontaneously given that the British sphere of influence would not be disturbed.