§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEYI beg to give Notice that to-morrow I will ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether there is any truth in the statement made by Safvet Pasha to the French Ambassador at Constantinople, as reported by the Special Correspondent of The Standard of to-day, to the effect "that England had promised. Turkey that she would not permit Greece to receive any additional territory, and that without this assurance Turkey would not have ceded Cyprus to England?" I will also ask whether the second secret document we hear of to-day, as having been signed at the Foreign Office on the 31st of May, had any reference to the future limitation of Greece?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERI think I had better answer the Question at once; but the hon. Member can repeat it again to-morrow, if he likes. There is no report, and there is certainly no document, of the character alluded to by the hon. Member.
§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEYDo I understand the right hon. Gentleman to say that there was no secret document signed on the 31st of May at the Foreign Office, or that it had no reference to the affairs of Greece?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERThere was no document signed on that day that had reference to the affairs of Greece.