§ SIR C. DILKE (Gloucester, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Major Martyr found Congolese troops outside the leased enclave of Lado, and in the territory originally included in the same lease, but the renunciation of which is understood to have been forced on Belgium by France in 1894; and whether the lease of the left bank of the Nile between Lado and Fashoda, as well as that of a larger portion of our sphere, extending to the Bahr-el-Ghazel and Bahr-el-Arab, are held by Her Majesty's Government to be still effective, although we are not in possession of the strip of Congolese territory connecting Lake Albert Edward with a leased post at the end of Lake Tanganyika, named in Article III. of the Agreement of 1894?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. BRODRICK,) Surrey, GuildfordMajor Martyr 781 found Congolese troops at Kero, north of 5 degs. 30 min. north latitude. The matters referred to in the second part of the Question can hardly be considered till the settlement of the country is more complete.