§ MR. JOSEPH WALTON (Yorkshire W.R.,) BarnsleyI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in the interests of British trade, His Majesty's Government are taking step with a view of securing an arrangement between the Powers for the neutralisation of the Chinese treaty port 1323 of Niuchwang during the Russo-Japanese war.
§ EARL PERCYNo, Sir. His Majesty's Government do not consider that it would be practicable to secure the neutralisation of any territory in the actual occupation of one of the belligerents.