§ SIR A. ROLLIT (Islington, N.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether or not the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty governing the construction of telegraphs and other facilities in Africa, and the collision on the Zambesi, gives such rights to each high contracting party as are reasonably necessary for the above purposes, and provides that any difference as to the execution of such rights shall be referred to arbitration; and whether or not such a difference was pending at the time such right was asserted by force?
§ SIR E. GREYRights, so far as may be reasonably required, are conferred by the 11th Article of the Treaty. A discussion as to the character of reasonable 696 requirements is proceeding. It began before the incident alluded to in the last paragraph is said to have occurred, and it includes the question whether the Article provides in the case in point for arbitration.