HC Deb 15 May 1900 vol 83 c238
SIR E ASHMEAD-BARTLETT (Sheffield, Ecclesall)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government have any information to the effect that the Chinese Government have given permission to a Russian company or to Russian subjects to build a railway direct to Pekin from Lake Baikal via Kiakhta and Mongolia.

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

We have received no confirmation of the rumour referred to.