§ SIR HENRY FOWLER (Wolverhampton, E.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether any arrangements have been come to with the Russian Government for the conveyance of mails from this country to China and the Ear East by the Trans-Siberian Railway, having regard to the great saving of time effected in transmission by this route; and whether the mails from Germany to China are carried by the Trans-Siberian route.
§ (Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) I am in negotiation with the Russian Government for the conveyance of the British mails to China and the Far East by the Trans-Siberian Railway, but have not yet been able to settle terms. I have reason to believe that German mails for China are likewise not yet forwarded by the Trans-Siberian route.