§ MR. DARBY GRIFFITHsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, in his recent communications to the House on the subject of Candia, he is to be understood as 430 describing the conduct of both parties in the struggle as nearly on an equality in point of cruelty and outrage, and whether the horrors inflicted on women and children by the Turks does not far exceed anything of the kind that could be imputed to the Candiotes?
LORD STANLEYreplied that he had merely stated that he had reason to fear that many acts of inhumanity had been perpetrated on both sides. The information he had received fully warranted him in making that statement; but he had not attempted to strike a just balance between the two parties, nor was his information sufficiently precise to enable him to do so, did he desire it.