§ SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can state if the American Minister at Peking is a party to the acceptance with modifications of the conditions made at Tientsin by the commanders of the allied forces.
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE, FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Lord CRAN-BOKNE,) RochesterA final agreement has not yet been come to as to the conditions upon which the provisional Government is to be terminated. I can make no statement, therefore, as to the attitude of the representatives of the Powers.