§ MR. BRYCE (Aberdeen, S.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a Question of which I have given him private Notice. It is, Whether there is any truth in the statement in a leading article in Le Temps newspaper, that Her Majesty's Government have procured or asked from the Turkish Government the cession of a port or of an Island in the neighbourhood of the Dardanelles?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N. E.)I have no hesitation in answering my hon. Friend. There is no foundation whatever for that statement, or for any of the other statements in the article in question.