§ MR. CHARLES HOBHOUSEI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, under the terms of the Agreement of 29th April, the Peking-Shan-hai-Kwang Railway has been handed over to China on 1st June; and, if it has not been so handed over, whether its retention is due to disagreement among or refusal by the Allied Powers.
LORD CRAN BORNEWe learn from His Majesty's Minister at Peking that there has been some difference of opinion between his colleagues as to the date at which the railway might be handed over to China, and he is not yet able to give us definite information upon this point.