HC Deb 15 May 1879 vol 246 cc398-9
SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL

asked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether, since it has been officially stated that all the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin have been or are being duly carried out, except that portion of the twenty-third Clause which provides that institutions analogous to those of Crete shall be granted to those parts of European Turkey not specially provided for, he can say whether Her Majesty' Government are determined to insist on the fulfilment by the Turks of the stipulations in consideration of which they were saved from extinction, as firmly as they have insisted on the stipulations by which the advance of Russia was restrained?

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

Her Majesty's Government have more than once pressed upon the Porte the importance of taking speedy action under the 23rd clause of the Treaty of Berlin; and representations to that effect have recently been repeated.