§ SIR JOHN SWINBURNE (Staffordshire, Lichfield)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to a telegram in the Evening Standard of 15th May, purporting to come from Canea (in Crete), in which it is stated that a young Christian had been stabbed to death by some Mussulmans near that town; and whether he will cause inquiry to be made as to the truth, or otherwise, of this telegram?
§ *THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir J. FERGUSSON,) Manchester, N.E.No such information has as yet reached Her Majesty's Government; but the British Consul will not fail to report the matter by despatch if such a murder has been 1270 committed. Murders are not infrequently committed by members of the different factions.