§ MR. MOON (St. Pancras, N.)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether a reply has been received to the telegram sent by the Foreign Office early in May to His Majesty's Minister at Peking asking him to obtain a detailed statement of the complaints of a large number of British merchants in China that the Government of China ignores the Mackay Treaty, rendering the same ineffective in most essentials, and that the Government of China actively opposes the stipulations of that treaty as to currency, mining taxation, and navigation.
(Answered by Earl Percy.) A reply has been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, who has reported that he is sending home with his comments a detailed statement of the complaints of British merchants at Shanghai.