§ MR. NORMAN (Wolverhampton, S.)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether communications passed between His Majesty's Government and the Russian Government regarding the expedition to Thibet before it was despatched, if so, will he state their purport; and can he lay the correspondence upon the Table.
§ * THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (EARL PERCY, Kensington, S.)The answer to the first Question is in the affirmative, the Papers are included in the correspondence which will shortly be laid.