§ MR. BUCHANANOn behalf of the. hon. Member for South Wolverhampton, I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether instructions have yet been sent to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Pekin concerning the case of the six Chinese journalists under arrest in Shanghai on a charge of high treason; and, it so, can he state the purport of these instructions.
§ THE PRIME MINISTER AND FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,, for Lord CRANBORNE) Manchester, E.His Majesty's representative at Pekin has been instructed by telegraph that in the opinion of His Majesty's Government the prisoners should not be surrendered.