HC Deb 17 July 1900 vol 86 c218
SIR HENRY FOWLER (Wolverhampton, E.)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he has any news from China to communicate to the House.

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

We have received no information in the last twenty-four hours either from the Consul at Tientsin or from the Commanding Officer, nor have we received any information from Shanghai of the reports which have reached that city of attacks on Tientsin by the allies. I see there are reports both ways, one of failure and the more recent one of successful attack.

MR. PRITCHARD MORGAN) (Merthyr Tydvil

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the British Legation at Peking was standing on the 9th inst.?

MR. BRODRICK

The hon. Member has given me no notice of the question, but we have no confirmation of the statement.

MR. PRITCHARD MORGAN

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of the fact that His Excellency Li Hung Chang left Canton this morning for Peking with the view of taking supreme command in China?

[The question was not answered.]