§ 1. Mr KINGasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether the failure of the neutrality clauses of the Berlin Act of 1885 to maintain the neutrality of Central Africa since the War began will render those clauses nugatory during the remainder of the present hostilities?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir E. Grey)The provisions of the Berlin Act have, of course, the same validity to-day as before the War. I do not, however, see any prospect of securing at this stage the 296 agreement between the belligerents necessary to take advantage of the neutrality clauses of the Act.