§ MR. F. E. SMITH (Liverpool, Walton)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether the Paper, No. 1 (1906), United States, contains all the correspondence which has taken place between His Majesty's Government, the Government of the Colony, and Mr. Root in reference to the Newfoundland fisheries between 12th October, 1905 and 8th October, 1906.
§ (Answered by Mr. Churchill.) The Paper is a complete record of what passed between His Majesty's Government and the United States Government, and between His Majesty's Government and the Colonial Government, on the subject of the modus vivendi up to the date, of its conclusion. It does not set out, and does not purport to set out, the whole of the correspondence on the Newfoundland fisheries question. The documents 647 prefixed to the correspondence respecting the modus vivendi were included in order to show the general nature of the dispute with the United States Government. Mr. Root's Note of 12th October, 1905, was included because it was referred to in his Note of the 19th October, 1905.