HC Deb 08 May 1902 vol 107 cc1082-3
MR. GIBSON BOWLES

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, are His Majesty's Government aware that Mr. Pierpoint Morgan is a leading Member of the syndicate for carrying out the concession granted by Turkey to Germany for the Railway to be constructed through Asia Minor and thence to the Persian Gulf; and have they any information showing that any † See (4) Debates, cv., 987. English financiers are interested in that enterprise, and, can any Papers relating to the matter be laid upon the Table of this House.

LORD CRANBORNE

No Sir. His Majesty's Government have no information to the effect suggested by the hon. Member's Question.