§ *SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucester, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the recent inclusion within the Uganda Protectorate of the British sphere of influence to the west extends to the territories which were the subject of lease to the sovereign of the Congo State, and were renounced by him, or to those which were the subject of such lease but not at the same time renounced.
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE EOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. GEORGE CURZON,) Lancashire, SouthportThe territories recently included with the Uganda Protectorate extend up to the second of the two regions mentioned in the Question, but the notification does not affect either of the latter.