§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Chefket Pasha has been appointed by the Turkish Government to an important command in that portion of Thessaly which lies to the south of the line named in the Thirteenth Protocol of the Congress of Berlin.
§ MR. H. SAMUELSONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Chefket Pasha who has 306 been appointed to an important command in Thessaly is the Chefket Pasha specially mentioned by the Earl of Derby in an official Despatch to Sir Henry Elliot, dated 21st September, 1877 (Turkey, No. 1, 1877, No. 316), ordering him to demand audience of the Sultan, and to require the punishment of the authors of the atrocities in Bulgaria?
§ MR. BOURKEI do not suppose anyone can doubt that the Chefket Pasha referred to in the Question of the hon. Member for Chelsea is the same person as is alluded to in the Question of the hon. Member for Frome. In November last Chefket Pasha was transferred from Manister to Larissa in Thessaly, where he is serving, we understand, under the orders of Mushir Pasha. That is all I can say on the subject.