§ * SIR CHARLES DILKEI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there has been any further communication with Russia as to Afghanistan since his reply of 20th October last as to the proposal of Russia to establish direct relations with Afghanistan in respect to frontier matters.
§ LORD CRANBORNEFurther communications have passed on this subject with the Russian Government, but I am not at present in a position to give the House any information with regard to them.