HC Deb 10 May 1900 vol 82 cc1245-6
MR. GIBSON BOWLES

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, have Her Majesty's Government any information respecting any communications passing between the Government of Russia and the Government of Turkey with reference to a request that Turkey should grant to Russia two coaling stations in the Ægean Sea, one at Tenedos and the other at Rhodes.

* THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. BRODRICK, Surrey, Guildford)

Her Majesty's Government have received no confirmation of the report in question.

MR. GIBSON BOWLES

Have the Government any information?

* MR. BRODRICK

No official information.