§ MR. REESI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the German Government has been informed of the fact that the Russian Foreign Minister gave a declaration in writing to the effect that the Anglo Russian Convention does not affect British rights in the Persian Gulf.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. RUNCIMAN,; for Sir EDWARD GREY) DewsburyThe text of my right hon. friend's despatch to His Majesty's Ambassador at St. Petersburg, of the 29th of August last, taking note of the declaration of the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs on this subject, was communicated to the German Government together with the text of the Anglo Russian Convention. This despatch was published with the Convention in the Parliamentary Paper (Russia, No. 1, 1907).