HC Deb 17 February 1870 vol 199 cc429-30
MR. GREGORY

said, he would beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If Her Majesty's Government has received information of a large concentration of Turkish troops which has caused much, excitement in Servia, and if any representations have been made on the subject to the Turkish Government, and with what result?

MR. OTWAY

, in reply, said the attention of Her Majesty's Government was called to the alleged proceedings of the Turkish Government on the frontier of Montenegro, and they caused inquiry to be made on the subject, the result of which was the denial by the Porte that reinforcements had been sent to the frontier, and its assurance that it would not attack Montenegro. No account has been received of the excitement in Servia referred to by my hon. Friend's Question.