§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign. Affairs, Whether any steps have been taken, or are about to be taken, to establish the Provincial Autonomies in European Turkey guaranteed by the 23rd Article of the Treaty of Berlin?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEI would refer my hon. Friend to the Papers marked No. 52 in Parliamentary Paper No. 4, 1881, and No. 58 of the same Blue Book. Article 23 does not make any provision for enforcing the promulgation of the reforms.
§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked whether he was to understand that, subsequent to the presentation of the Papers to Parliament, no action had been taken by Her Majesty's Government with the view of obtaining the execution of the 23rd Article of the Treaty of Berlin?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEOn the advice of Her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople, the Armenian Question has been pressed in the first instance.