Notification to Foreign Powers of the Annexation of the two Republics.

HC Deb 24 January 1902 vol 101 cc780-1

MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether the annexation of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State has been officially notified to Foreign Powers.

* THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Lord CRANBORNE,) Rochester

It is not the practice of this country to notify annexations to Foreign Powers; and unless there is some special reason for doing so no such notification will be made.