HC Deb 13 April 1877 vol 233 c1077
MR. BUTLER-JOHNSTONE

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any official information has reached Her Majesty's Government to the effect that Russian revolutionary agencies have been discovered in Bulgaria, as stated in a telegram published in the "Pall Mall Gazette" on Tuesday 10th April?

MR. BOURKE

Sir, no official information has been received as to the discovery by the Turkish Government of the existence of the two incendiary Russian agencies in Bulgaria mentioned in the telegram referred to. Such information as has been reported to the Foreign Office respecting the proceedings of the Slav Committees in the Turkish Provinces is at the service of the hon. Gentleman, and will be given with the Eastern Papers now being prepared.