§ MR WEIRTo ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state why British consulate protection is no longer afforded to Afghan subjects in Persia.
(Answer.) It was arranged between His Majesty's Government and the Persian Government in 1890 that the Persian authorities would receive in a friendly spirit representations made by British diplomatic and consular agents on behalf of Afghan subjects who might appeal to them. There has been no departure from this arrangement.—(Foreign Office.)