§ MR. HEDDERWICK (Wick Burghs)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government have received 1361 from the German Government any communications tending to modify the declaration made by Baron von Marschall, in his dispatches to Count Hatzfeldt of 1st February and 15th October, 1895, that the beginning and the end of German policy in South Africa was the maintenance of the Transvaal as an independent State, as laid down in the Treaty of 1884, and a guarantee of the status quo as regards the railways and the harbour of Delagoa Bay; and, if so, whether he can state in what way and to what extent any such communications modify; the German policy as declared in 1895; and whether Her Majesty's Government propose to give to Parliament any information tending to show what the German policy is at present.
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. BRODRICK,) Surrey, GuildfordNo communication has been received from the German Government on the subject of the Convention of 1884, which as a matter of fact has, through the existence of a state of war, terminated.