§ MR. MACLEANI bog to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Foreign Office received information beforehand from Sir Claude MacDonald, or any other source, warning Her Majesty's Government to be prepared for a rising against foreigners in China.
§ *MR. BRODRICKHer Majesty's Government received reports with regard to the Boxer movement in Shantung and Chihli, but no indication of any general rising against foreigners was contained in the information which reached them prior to the recent movement of the Boxers.