HC Deb 16 April 1877 vol 233 cc1215-6
SIR H. DRUMMOND WOLFF

asked, Whether the Government has received any information of the fact stated in the "Morning Post" of to-day, that on the 3rd instant, while Russia was insisting upon the immediate disarmament of Turkey, the Russian Colonel Miloradovitch, together with four other Russian officers, was engaged in Servia in reorganising the lately disbanded corps of volunteers for the service of the Russian Government?

MR. BOURKE

Sir, we have heard that an agent of the Moscow Slav Committee has been endeavouring to procure recruits in Belgrade to join Despotovitch, the insurrectionary leader in Herzegovina, and has been especially trying to get volunteers from the disbanded corps which served during the war with Turkey under Colonel Miloradovitch; but we have not heard that the latter was himself engaged in recruiting. By the last reports it appears that the office of this agent had been closed.