MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs have His Majesty's Government any information that negotiations have recently been begun and are now proceeding between the German and the Russian Governments for an arrangement whereby, in return for certain advantages afforded to Russia by Germany, during the hostilities with Japan, Russia will give support to Germany in respect of the construction of the Bagdad railway and of the general extension of German predominance in Asia Minor.
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Earl PERCY,) Kensington, S.The answer is in the negative.