§ SIR GEORGE BADEN-POWELL (Liverpool, Kirkdale)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any definite agreement has been come to with the Government of the Republic of Liberia as to any increase in the number of ports of entry and in facilities for British trade; and what arrangement has been come to in regard to the recent cases of firing on British vessels by the Liberian gunboat?
MR. CURZONThe Governor of Sierra Leone, who is also Her Majesty's Consul for Liberia, visited Monrovia recently, and discussed the question of increased trading facilities with the Republic. Steps have since been taken with regard to the issue of licences to trade with ports of non-entry. He also received assurances that British vessels should not be fired upon, and orders have been issued by the Liberian Government to that effect.