§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE (Wilts, Cricklade)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether the Turkish Government is proposing to extend the railway from Konieh, across Mesopotamia, towards the Persian Gulf, and to grant a concession with that object to an Anglo-Hungarian syndicate; and if it is proposed to lay any Papers relating to the development of railways in Asia Minor before Parliament.
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. BRODRICK,) Surrey, GuildfordHer Majesty's Government are aware that proposals have been made to the Turkish Government for a railway of the kind described. But we are not informed that the proposals have been accepted. There 505 are no recent Papers on the subject of railway development in Asia Minor which could usefully be laid before Parliament, but Her Majesty's Ambassador has his attention fully directed to this question.