§ MR. JAMES O'KELLY (Roscommon, N.)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether at any time any portion of the Bahr-el-Ghazal territory was leased to the King of the Belgians; and, if so, on what terms and for what time was such lease made; and whether such lease is still in existence, or whether it has been cancelled; and, if so, when was it cancelled.
(Answered by Earl Percy.) Particulars with regard to the lease of a portion of the Bahr-el-Ghazal territory to the Sovereign of the Congo State will be found in the Parliamentary Paper, Treaty Series, No. 15, 1894. The lease was made subject to a reservation of the rights of Egypt, which revived on the reconquest of the Soudan.