§ MR. YERBURGH (Chester)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Germany adheres to the contention of the 13th May 1898 that the province of Shantung was not unreservedly open to British enterprise, in consequence of Germany having acquired a special position in the said province, but that the Yang-tsze region was still unreservedly open to German enterprise, as Great Britain had not occupied any place in the said region; and whether Germany now recognises that we have a special position in the Yang-tsze region, conferring upon us similar privileges to those which she enjoys in Shan-tung?
§ MR. BRODRICKNo communications have taken place with the German Government on the subject beyond those published in the recent Blue Book.