HC Deb 09 February 1899 vol 66 c316
MR. GIBSON BOWLES

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the request made of the Chinese Government by Sir C. Macdonald on the 19th January 1898, for the opening of the port of Nanning, has been acceded to by the Chinese Government; and whether he can state what conditions, if any, have been attached to the opening of this important port to commerce?

THE UNDER SECRETARY OP STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. ST. JOHN BRODRICK,) Surrey, Guildford

Her Majesty's Minister at Peking reported on the 3rd inst that an Imperial Decree had been signed declaring Nanning an open port. It will naturally be subject to the same conditions as any other port in China opened under the provisions of various treaties from 1842 onwards.