§ 71. Captain Alan Grahamasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the principle on which the Cyprus Government was compelled to pay a large proportion of the interest due on the Ottoman Debt from 1914 to 1927, in spite of Ottoman sovereignty having been terminated by our annexation of the island in 1914?
§ Lieut.-Colonel ColvilleThe payments referred to were made by Cyprus—in accordance with a generally accepted principle of international law—in view of the island's position as a succession State of the Ottoman Empire.