§ CAPTAIN NOLANasked the First Lord of the Treasury, If the Suzerainty possessed by the Porte over Servia and claimed over Montenegro, has the effect of depriving medical men and Ambulance Corps of the immunity and protection which under the Geneva Convention would be accorded to them in a regular war between two independent Powers; and, if such is the case, or if it is doubtful that such is the case, whether Her Majesty's Government is preparedin the cause of humanity to urge on the Porte, and if necessary on the Governments of Servia and Montenegro, the advisability of immediately proclaiming that medical men and Ambulance Corps assisting the sick and wounded in Turkey will receive the consideration and protection which they would be entitled to in a war between two independent Powers which had accepted the Geneva Convention?
§ MR. DISRAELII think, Sir, the hon. and gallant Gentleman will agree with me that the inconvenience which he anticipates from the Suzerainty of the Porte over Servia and Montenegro will not really interfere with the circumstances to which his Question refers when I tell him that it is not merely the Porte that has accepted the Geneva Convention, but that the Governments of Mentenegro and Servia have also respectively accepted that Convention.