Sir GILBERT PARKERasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he had any official information that Prince Albert of Belgium has furnished a report to the Belgian Government on his visit to the Congo to the effect that he was very unfavourably impressed with the condition of affairs there and by the devastation and destruction of native life; and whether he had lately received any authoritative communications concerning the system pursued at the present time in the collection of rubber, and, if so, what was the nature of those communications?
§ Mr. McKINNON WOODI have received no official information of the nature referred to by the hon. Member. The answer to the second part of the question is in the negative.