THE MARQUESS OF CARMARTHEN (Lambeth, Brixton)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the export of hay from Austria-Hungary has been stopped; and whether the Government will make representations, so that exceptions may be made in favour of those who have made contracts before the date of the forbidding of the exportation, which contracts are as yet unfulfilled?
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir E. Grey,) Northumberland, BerwickThe exportation of hay from Austria-Hungary has been stopped, and Her Majesty's Government have made urgent representations that contracts entered into previously to this prohibition should be excepted from its provisions. It is understood that this matter is still under consideration at Vienna and Buda-Pesth.