MR. PIKE PEASEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any official information as to the approximate number of officers, non-commissioned officers, regular and irregular armed forces, in the service of the Congo Free State.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYI can only refer the hon. Member to such statements as have been published in the Almanac de Gotha; it is impossible to give official 73 information on such questions beyond what is given by the State concerned.