BRITISH SPHERE OF INFLUENCE ON THE NILE.

HC Deb 13 May 1895 vol 33 cc1029-30

MR. J. CHAMBERLAIN

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the Government have received any further information as to the existence and present position of the French expeditionary force which was rumoured to be approaching the neighbourhood of the British sphere of influence on the Nile?

THE UNDER SECRETARY OP STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir EDWARD GREY,) Northumberland, Berwick

We have not received any further information tending to show that any French force has entered the country in question.