HC Deb 04 April 1898 vol 56 c21
MR. J. HERBERT ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will grant a Return showing the amount of British tonnage entered and cleared from the port of Batoum for the last 30 years?

MR. CURZON

I can supply the hon. Member with the figures that he asks for from the year 1881 to 189k. We have no earlier information; and my impression is that, before the Treaty of Berlin there was next to no British trade with Batoum. But I shall be glad to receive any further communication on the subject that the hon. Member cares to make to me.