§ MR. DRAGE () DerbyI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will give the latest figures in the possession of the Foreign Office showing the proportion of the trade of Persia which is in the hands of British subjects viâ Trebizond, viâ the Persian Gulf, and viâ Seistan; and whether British trade with North and South Persia respectively has increased or decreased in recent years?
§ MR.BRODRICKThe Annual Consular Report on the trade of Trebizond will be issued in the course of a few days. The latest information respecting the Persian Gulf trade is contained in Report No. 2186 from Her Majesty's Consul-General at Bushire, published in September last. Report No. 2202, from Her Majesty's Consul-General at Meshed, published last January, contains information as to trade in that locality, but we have no exact details as to the trade of Seistan in particular. I shall be happy to furnish the honourable Member with a short statement showing the movement of Persian trade during the last three years.