§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether he has any information as to the acquisition by Germany of the island of Laut at the south-eastern extremity of Borneo, and as to arrangements now in progress for establishing there a revictualling station and a point of observation for German warships.
§ MR. RUNCIMAN (for Sir EDWARD GREY)His Majesty's Government are informed that there is no truth in the report of Germany having acquired the island of Laut or any portion of it, or of any station or post of observation for German men-of-war being established there.