§ MR. J. SEYMOUR KEAY (Elgin and Nairn)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether the Government of India intend sending a British Mission to the Ameer of Afghanistan, with Lord Roberts at its head; if the Ameer will consent to receive it; and has the proposed Mission arisen out of the affair of Bajour, and to what object or objects is it addressed?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. G. N. CURZON, Lancashire, S.W., Southport)Her Majesty's Government are desirous that a meeting should take place between the Ameer and a British officer representing the Government of India, to discuss various questions of frontier policy; but the matter has not reached a stage at which it would be possible to give any detailed information.