§ COLONEL HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if there is any truth in the welcome report circulated by the Press Association that the United States are disposed to make some tariff concessions in favour of the trade of Sheffield and Birmingham, and if negotiations to that end are being conducted by Her Majesty's Government?
MR. J. W. LOWTHERNo information of the character referred to has reached Her Majesty's Government, and, therefore, no negotiations are being conducted upon those lines.