HC Deb 01 May 1890 vol 343 cc1822-3
MR. SCHWANN (Manchester, N.)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a further telegram in the Manchester Guardian of the 29th instant, dated Canea, Saturday last, that the Officer Hassan Bey, who outraged the girl Mario Damanaki, has been arrested, hut Chakir Pasha is endeavouring to screen him by pretending that the girl has changed her religion; and whether Her Majesty's Government will use their influence to prevent such a miscarriage of justice?

*SIR J. FERGUSSON

We have no reason to believe that the inquiry will not be fairly conducted. Should there be any probability of a failure of justice Her Majesty's Consul will, no doubt, report.