MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on what date did His Majesty's Government receive the copy now in their possession of the Convention between the Turkish Government and the Concessionaires of the Anatolian Railway Company (Baghdad line) quoted by Mr. Vice-Consul Waugh in his Report dated 9th March and received at the Foreign Office on 16th March last.
§ LORD CRANBORNEIt would not be in accordance with the usual practice to give the date in such a matter as this, unless it was proposed to lay the Paper on the Table.
MR. GIBSON BOWLESI want to know whether it was not received on the same date as Vice-Consul Waugh's Report, which actually contained extracts from it.
§ LORD CRANBORNEVice-Consul Waugh, I think, quoted newspaper reports.
MR. GIBSON BOWLESNo, if the noble Lord will refer he will see that extracts from the Convention were quoted by Mr. Waugh.