§ SIR ELLIS ASHMEAD-BARTLETTI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, if Her Majesty's Government can give the House any information as to whether there are at present any Russian troops at Kirin or in occupation of any part of Manchuria; whether there are any British warships now at Port Arthur; and whether that port is under Chinese or Russian authority?
MR. CURZONI answered the first and third of these questions on Tuesday night. In reply to the second, I am not aware that there is at present any British vessel of war at Port Arthur.