§ SIR GEORGE BADEN-POWELLI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can lay upon the Table any further Papers concerning the annexation by France of the Kerguelen Islands; whether such annexation of islands, situated some thousands of miles from any other French settlement, will be recognised by the Powers unless made effective by actual occupation; and whether he can state the purpose for which these islands have been annexed.?
§ SIR E. GREYThere has been no Correspondence on the subject, and Her Majesty's Government are not in a position to express an opinion on the points raised in the second and third paragraphs of the question.