§ MR. SUMMERS (Huddersfield)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the attention of Her Majesty's Government has been called to the complaints of the continued denial of justice, practised in and through the Turkish Courts at Aleppo, to Mrs. Barker, a British subject owning property there, of which she has been violently dispossessed, and thereby reduced to destitution; and whether the Government will take prompt action in the case?
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE For FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir J. FEEGUSSON, Manchester, N. E.)Mrs. Barker has had, during her protracted litigation, every assistance from the Embassy at Constantinople, and from the Consulate at Aleppo. She has adduced no proof of the alleged corruption of the Turkish Courts. She has had recourse to two processes in respect of her complaint, one in the Criminal Court on 1333 account of violence on the part of her opponent, in which she was successful, the other in a suit concerning the right to property, in which she has failed. She will continue to receive advice and assistance; but her ease cannot be withdrawn from the legitimate jurisdiction of the Turkish tribunals.