§ MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he can state to the House the number of Greek and non-Greek inhabitants in the three cities of Janina, Larissa, and Prevesa respectively?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEThere are no absolutely reliable statements relative to the populations of Janina, Larissa, and Prevesa. Janina is represented as having a population of from 16,000 to 30,000, of whom one-sixth to one-seventh are Jews, one-fourth Mussulman, and the remainder Christians of the Greek Church. Prevesa has a population of about 5,000, of whom 4,000 are Christians. There are no means of ascertaining the exact ethnological character of the inhabitants; but those described as orthodox Christians, as a rule, speak Greek, and call themselves Greek, and have Greek proclivities.