SIR. MANCHERJEE BHOWNAG-GREE (Bethnal Green, N.E.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if any information has been received with reference to the inquiry which he promised to institute regarding the issue of a stringent edict by the Governor of German South-West Africa, prohibiting the extension of credit to African natives; whether this edict decrees that henceforth the claims of British Indian traders arising out of loans to such natives shall be dismissed by the Colonial Courts; and whether, as the Gewerbsteuer, or tax upon commerce, is directed against those traders, any steps have been taken to represent to the German Government the injustice of imposing upon British subjects trading in German possessions restrictions which are not imposed on German subjects trading in British possessions.
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. BRODRICK,) Surrey, GuildfordHer Majesty's Government have not yet received the information on the subject which has been asked for.