§ 12. Sir J. JARDINEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he intends to fulfil the promise made on 29th June, 1914, by his predecessor of presenting to the House the Papers, including the text of agreements and covering. dispatches relating to agreements, some signed and others initialled and ready for signature, made, some with Turkey and others with Germany, about the Bagdad. Railway and kindred matters, the navigation of the River Tigris, and generally about our interests in the Persian Gulf?
Mr. BALFOURNo, Sir; and I would. refer the hon. Member to the reply returned to him on the 15th of March, 1915,. which will explain my reason for not laying the documents in question.