§ SIR E. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Governments of Germany, Austria, and Italy have made an official declaration against a Christian subject of the Sultan being appointed the Governor General of Crete?
MR. CURZONThe three Governments in question have all expressed opinions unfavourable to the appointment of an Ottoman subject as Governor General of Crete. It was included among certain proposals of the Turkish Government, which were described by Count Bulow as inadmissible. It was absolutely rejected by the Italian Government. The Austrian Government said there could be no question of its being entertained, in a dispatch which will be printed in the next collection of Papers.