§ MR. CHARLES DEVLIN (Galway)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will say when the regulations with respect to the Newfoundland fisheries, provided for in the Anglo-French Agreement of April 1904, will be drawn up; whether the French Naval Division, which usually leaves for the Newfoundland fisheries about the end of April, was delayed in consequence of such regulations not being drawn up; and will he say who is responsible for the delay, and how the matter now stands.
§ MR. RUNCIMAN (For Sir EDWARD GREY)The draft regulations which have been prepared under Article 2 of the Anglo-French Convention are still under discussion with the French Government, and it is not possible to name the date on which the negotiations will be concluded. His Majesty's Government have received no information as to the French men-of-war to be employed in the patrol of the Newfoundland fisheries.