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Defence Of Gibraltar

Volume 90: debated on Monday 4 March 1901

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I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether His Majesty's Government will open negotiations with the Spanish Government for the cession of Tarifa and the territory adjoining the western shore of Gibraltar Bay before expending any more public money on the harbour works at Gibraltar.

His Majesty's Government have no intention of opening negotiations of the kind proposed.