§ MR. EWARTasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If it be a fact that the Turkish Government have imposed a quarantine of ten days on all vessels passing through the Dardanelles?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEYes, Sir; Her Majesty's Ambassador has remonstrated, but hitherto without avail. Lord Dufferin will continue to endeavour to obtain permission for vessels bound to or coming from the Black Sea to pass the Straits without communicating with the shore—in other words, in quarantine; failing this measure, he will try to obtain a reduction of the period of detention.