§ 15. Mr. YEOasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if, in view of our alliance with Japan, he can state whether he has heard officially from either Russia or Japan with regard to the under standing or alliance which it is announced they are contemplating?
§ Sir E. GREYI may perhaps be permitted to observe that any such information, if it had reached me, would necessarily be confidential, and I venture therefore to deprecate any question of this nature.