MR. CATHCART WASONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government has been informed that a party of British missionaries travelling on the Upper Lomako River, in the Congo Free State, in January last, were summoned to retire instantly by the 644 agent of the A.B.I.R, Company at Lingundo, on pain of being prosecuted for trespass; and whether His Majesty's Government will ensure that the rights of British subjects to travel in the Congo territories shall no longer be infringed.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYMy attention has been called to this matter, and His Majesty's Minister at Brussels will be instructed to request that a full inquiry may be made into the circumstances.