§ SIR E. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT (Sheffield, Ecclesall)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Lieutenant Watts-Jones has discovered a good railway route to Tung-Chang-Fu viâ Mongkyeng to 385 Tinchau, which can be reached by Kunlon Ferry without difficulty; and whether this discovery will enable the railway to be made from Burmah to Yun-nan?
§ MR. BRODRICKThe Reports of the officers engaged on the Survey are addressed to the Yun-nan Company, in whose services they are at present, and Her Majesty's Government, have no particulars. It is, however, understood that what is considered a practicable route into Yun-nan has been found.