MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Article 9, Article 33, and Article 42 of the Berlin Treaty 1878, whereby the Powers Signatory of the Treaty enacted that Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Servia should each bear a portion of the public debt of Turkey, to be fixed by the Powers, in proportion to the territory obtained by each, have been carried into execution; what portion of the public debt of Turkey was fixed by the Powers to be borne respectively by Bulgaria, by Montenegro, and by Servia; and has such portion, or any portion, of the debt been borne, and is it still borne, by those three countries?
§ SIR E. GREYThe articles referred to have not been carried into execution, owing to the fact that the Powers have been unable to come to an agreement.