§ MR. PICTON (Leicester)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can now communicate to the House the names of the members of the Eastern Concessions Syndicate?
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. J. W. LOWTHER,) Cumberland, PenrithThe Foreign Office were informed by the Imperial Tobacco Corporation that they had purchased the concession originally granted to Major Talbot by the State, from the Eastern Concessions Syndicate; but I am not informed, nor have I any knowledge, as to the names of the gentlemen who composed that Association.