MR. GIBSON BOWLESI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government have made any treaty or convention or come to any agreement with Germany relative to Portuguese possessions in South Africa; if so, have the terms of any such treaty, convention, or agreement, been communicated to Portugal; and will they be communicated to this House, and when.
§ LORD CRANBORNEMy right hon. friend and predecessor replied to a similar Question by my hon. friend on 1st February, 1900. † If I assure my hon. friend that it is impossible for me to make a fuller reply than was given upon that occasion, I hope he will accept it.
MR. GIBSON BOWLESMay I assume from that, that since that reply, no treaty engagements have been made with Germany in regard to Portuguese possessions in South Africa?
§ LORD CRANBORNEI am afraid I must ask for notice.