§ DR. TANNERI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether a proclamation by the Ameer of Afghanistan welcoming Russian railway enterprise, and enjoining his subjects to realise the great advantages accruing from the Merv-Kushk line, have been distributed on the northwest frontier of India and posted over Herat on the 25th of December, 1898, and if this has been done with the consent of Her Majesty's Ministers?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingI have seen some reference in the Press to an alleged proclamation of the character described, but I have no reason to believe the report to be true.
§ DR. TANNERSeeing that this report appeared in The Times yesterday, cannot the noble Lord give a more explicit explanation? The Times is the Ministerial organ.
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