HC Deb 27 February 1896 vol 37 cc1253-4
MR. E. R. P. MOON (St. Pancras, N.)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether his attention has been called to a statement that, by a treaty concluded recently between Russia and China, the former Power obtains the right to construct and work, under Russian management and administration, the Nertchinsk-Tsitsihar-Vladivostok and Tsitsihar-Port-Arthur Railways, together with other commercial advantages to which the most-favoured-nation clause is not applicable; and, whether he has any information confirmatory of that statement?

MR. CURZON

Her Majesty's Government have been informed by the Russian Government that there is no truth whatever in the statement referred to.