§ * SIR CHARLES DILKEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can inform the House if the Belgian Government has assented to the publication of the representation made by His Majesty's Government at Brussels on the conditions of Congo annexation in connection with treaty rights and with the Berlin and Brussels Acts; and whether it can be circulated at once.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYI have been in communication with the Belgian Government as to publication. They desire that publication should be made simultaneously here and in Belgium, and I expect to lay the Papers on the 15th instant.
§ MR. KEIR HARDIE (Merthyr Tydvil)was understood to ask if similar representations could not be made with regard to the internal affairs of Russia.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYreplied that in that matter we were under no treaty obligations, and there was no parallel between the two cases.