§ MR. DRAGE (Derby)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether airy information has 13 reached the Foreign Office to the effect that a separate agreement has been drawn up in connection with the Pekin-Hankau railway concession, under which the Minister at Pekin of the country which has the largest financial interest in the said concession is appointed arbitrator in any question under dispute, thus giving the Russian Minister at Pekin an absolute power in all disputes; and, if so, whether Her Majesty's Government have through Sir Claude MacDonald expressed to the Chinese Government their disapproval of 'this provision?
THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALPOUE, Manchester, E.)No information has reached us since yesterday to modify the statement then made. We have not the information for which the honourable Member asks.