§ Mr. DUCKWORTHasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information to the effect that an agreement has been reached between China and Japan on the subject of the Tsinanfu incident and on the general position in Shantung, in which British traders and shareholders are vitally interested; and, if this is so, what the agreement is and whether it will entail the restoration, for the benefit of commerce, of those sections of the railways in Shantung which are now controlled by the Japanese?
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONI have seen statements in the press to the effect that a provisional agreement has been reached, but have not as yet. received a confirmatory report from His Majesty's Minister.