§ MR. C. NICHOLSON (Yorkshire, W.R., Doncaster)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, under Section XIII. of the modus vivendi arranged by Lord Milner and the Portuguese Government on the 18th December, 1901, it is in the power of either party to the treaty to terminate it by one year's notice; and whether, if the Portuguese Government adheres to its determination to limit the recruiting of natives to a particular group of mine- 1026 owners, to the exclusion of the rest of His Majesty's subjects, His Majesty's Government will take steps to terminate the modus vivendi.
§ MR. CHURCHILLHis Majesty's Government see no reason at present to contemplate this contingency.