HC Deb 18 May 1899 vol 71 cc919-20
MR. JOSEPH WALTON (York, W.R., Barnsley)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can state, either exactly or approximately, the point at which the I railway now under construction from Pekin to Hankau will enter the area referred to as the basin of the Yang-tsze in the Anglo-Russian Agreement.

* THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. BRODRICK, Surrey, Guildford)

The railway from Pekin to Hankau will enter the area referred to at the basin of the Yang-tsze in the Anglo-Russian Agreement at the point in the province of Honan where it crosses the watershed of the Yang-tsze.