§ MR. JAMES BRYCE (Aberdeen, S.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government can, before the Session closes, give to the House some indication of their views as to the solution of the present troubles in Crete, and particularly as to the necessity (with a view to the pacification of the island) of requiring that the Governor to be appointed should be irremovable for a fixed period, except with the consent of the Powers, and that the plan of local autonomy to be settled for the island should be placed under the guarantee of the Powers?
MR. CURZONThe whole question is still under the consideration of the Powers, and has by no means reached a stage at which it would be possible to give an undertaking as to an early announcement on the subject.