MR. GIBSON BOWLESI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, have 796 the questions involving the respective interests of Great Britain and Russia in Persia and elsewhere, which had been under discussion between the two Governments on 9th March last, now approached a satisfactory settlement, and has the amicable understanding in regard thereto desired by His Majesty's Government been arrived at; do the questions referred to include those involving the respective interests of the two countries in Manchuria as well as in Asia Minor, Afghanistan, and the Dardanelles: and are communications still proceeding, or have they been broken off.
§ THE PRIME MINISTER AND FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR, Manchester, E.)There really is nothing to add to the answer given by my noble friend the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs to a very similar question some time ago.†