§ SIR E. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Russia has obtained from the Negus of Abyssinia the Sultanate of Raheita, near Obock, on the Red Sea, and opposite the British island of Perim, as a naval station?
MR. CURZONWe have no such information; nor am I aware that the Sultanate of Raheita is in the power of Abyssinia to give.