§ SIR RICHARD TEMPLE (Worcester, Evesham)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Whether Her Majesty's Government will take any further steps, in concert with other Powers, regarding the recent infraction of Treaties relating to the free port of Batoum, as shown in Lord Rosebery's Despatch?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Man-549 Chester, N.E.) Her Majesty's Government do not propose to carry the case beyond the position taken in Lord Rosebery's Despatch of July 3.