MR. HERBERT ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is in a position to state whether the Russian Government have again recently renewed their assurances to the Government of the United States that Manchuria will never be closed to American trade and commerce.
§ *SIR M. HICKS BEACH (for Lord CRANBORNE)His Majesty's Government have no official cognisance of such assurances.