§ MR. BOWLES (Lambeth, Norwood)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will cause to be placed in the Library of this House a copy of the identic map of the Turco-Persian frontier zone delivered in 1869 and 1870 by the English and Russian Governments to Ottoman and Persian 1270 Governments respectively, together with a copy of any correspondence or documents necessary to elucidate the circumstances under which it was prepared, and the purposes it was designed to serve.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYThis subject is now under negotiation between the Powers concerned. In these circumstances it would not be desirable to publish maps and papers, which would no doubt be of historical interest, but which relate to a frontier in which British territory is not concerned.