4. Major NEWMANasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to a statement in an Allied Legislature that the German population has been deliberately and systematically under-estimated, in order to deceive rival nations for a number of years past, and that the true population was about 90,000,000 in 1914, and not the accepted figure of 68,000,000; and has he any official information to this effect?
§ The MINISTER of BLOCKADE (Lord R. Cecil)I have seen a report in the Press that such a statement has been made, but I have no official information on the subject.