§ MR. DILLONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention had been directed to the extraordinary character of the Cretan papers issued that day, in which the period—the most interesting period—from December 5 to February 24 was entirely skipped over without any Dispatches; and he wished to ask whether 1637 the Government proposed to issue further Papers filling up that period, or to leave the House entirely without information?
*MR. CURZONI think the Question asked by the hon. Member is a very reasonable one. But it suggests a possible misapprehension of the action of the Government in presenting these Papers, and I am, therefore, glad to have the opportunity of explaining that it is the intention of the Government to lay the Papers for the period referred to before the House. They are at present engaged in preparing a Blue-book with regard to Crete carrying the history of events, whether by telegrams or Dispatches, from the date of the last published Blue-book up to the present lime. But that Blue-book is a large one, and will require some time to prepare; and pending its completion, in the desire to put the House in possession of information which I am sure everybody is anxious to have, they have presented in a Blue-book this morning the Reports of the Admiral and of Colonel Chermside.
§ MR. DILLONMay I ask when we may expect the other Blue-book?
*MR. CURZONIt is dangerous in make promises. We have no anxiety to keep back the book. Several persons at tile Foreign Office are engaged daily in pressing it forward to as early a completion as possible.