HC Deb 26 June 1900 vol 84 c1118
SIR H. CAMPBELL BANNERMAN (Stirling Burghs)

Has the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs any news from China which he can communicate to the House?

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

We have no direct news from the legations, Admiral Seymour's force, or Tientsin. Our last information from the officer in charge at Wei-hai-wei is that 3,000 men of the relief force at Tientsin were encamped with-in nine miles of that place on the evening of June 23rd. The force comprised Russians, French, Japanese, and British. From private sources we are informed that the relief force subsequently entered Tientsin and marched north. Statements have reached us from various Chinese sources that the legations were all unharmed on the 20th instant.