§ SIR ROBERT REID (Dumfries Burghs)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether it is true that the Great Powers have urged Greece to prevent the importation of arms or ammunition into Crete for the use of the insurgents; and, whether any of the Powers is prepared to give a guarantee that the promises of the Sultan will be carried out in the event of the insurgents laying down their arms?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. GEORGE CURZON,) Lancashire, SouthportThe representatives of the Powers have given advice of the character described in the Question to the Greek Government, who informed them that measures had already been spontaneously adopted to that effect. The Sultan's acquiescence in the proposals made by the representatives of the Powers at Constantinople was formally communicated in the first place to them, and by them to the insurgents, but no proposal in the nature of a guarantee has been made by any of the Powers.