Confidential
Sir,
5673
Foreign Office
13 March
7, 1897
256
fo 453055
I laid before the Marquis of Salisbury your letter of the 9th instant, inclosing a report by Mr. Platt on an expedition to Wuchow Fu.
His Lordship desires to state for Mr. Secretary Chamberlain's information that an agreement was signed on the 4th of February between the Under Secretary of State and the Colonial Office.