§ MR. ARTHUR ARNOLDasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, having regard to the difficulty in point of time of the occupation by Greece of so large a territory as that included in sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 to be ceded by Turkey not later than 14th September 1881, arrangements have been made for the immediate entry of Greek troops, in order that the occupation may be completed by the stipulated time?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, all the arrangements for the successive evacuation by the Turkish troops and the occupation by the Greek troops of the various sections of territory ceded to Greece by Turkey are under the management of the Commissioners appointed for the purpose by the Powers. General Hamley, Her Majesty's Commissioner, reports that it is doubtful whether the Greek forces will be able to advance at the same rate as the Turkish forces withdraw; but he does not consider that this is likely to cause any difficulty. The western portion of the second zone will be evacuated by the 22nd, and the remaining portion, as well as the fourth zone, by the 30th instant. The third and fifth zones will be evacuated by the 15th proximo.
§ In reply to Lord COLIN CAMPBELL and Mr. ARTHUR ARNOLD,
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEsaid, Her Majesty's Government had received no confirmation of the telegrams which had appeared in the newspapers as to the reported attack upon, and capture of, a Member of the Delimitation Commission.