§ MR. MOON (St. Pancras, N.)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, having regard to the breach by Russia of the Convention to evacuate Manchuria, the Foreign Office has proposed to the Chinese Government that they should denounce the Treaty of Aigun, whereby the navigation of the Amur, Sungari, and Ussuri was opened by China to Russia exclusively.
(Answered by Earl Percy.) His Majesty's Government do not consider that failure on the part of Russia to execute the provisions of the Convention for the evacuation of Manchuria would justify them in recommending the Chinese Government to denounce the Treaty of Aigun, which has been in force since 1858, and to which no objection has hitherto been taken.