HC Deb 04 August 1881 vol 264 cc821-2
MR. LABOUCHERE

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he has received any confirmation of the statement in the public journals, that M. Zancoff, the President of the late Ministry in Bulgaria, has been arrested; and, whether, if so, he will instruct Her Majesty's Representative in that country, to urge that M. Zancoff be secured in every respect the Constitutional and legal rights assured to him by the Constitution which was adopted by Bulgaria in 1878 with the concurrence of all the Great Powers?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

Sir, according to the information received by Mr. Lascelles from the Bulgarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Zankoff and Mr. Slaveikoff, after leaving Sistova, held meetings at various places in opposition to the new order of things; and on their arrival at Plevna, which is in a state of siege, the authorities placed them under arrest, and informed them that they were not to remain in the town. On their expressing a wish to proceed to Rustchuk, they were set at liberty and allowed to go there.