§ MR. PIKE PEASE (Darlington)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any official information to the effect that real agreement exists as regards the annexation of the Congo to Belgium.
§ MR. RUNCIMANHis Majesty's Government have no other information on the subject beyond the announcement recently made by the new Belgian Prime Minister that his Government are about to introduce a measure for the annexation of the Congo Free State, and will ask Parliament to vote it simultaneously with a new law for the future Government of the Colony.