MR. GIBSON BOWLESI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it is the fact, as seems to appear from the account given on page 59 of the French Yellow Book on Eastern Affairs of a conversation with the French Chargé d'Affaires in London, relative to the evacuation of Thessaly by the Turks, that Lord Salisbury stated that, even in the event of the loan for the war indemnity payable by Greece falling through, the Greeks would nevertheless remain in possession of their province; and whether, and if so when, Sir Edward Monson's despatch of the 25th August, 1897, published in the same Yellow Book, will be laid upon the Table of this House?
THR UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRSThe statement in the French Yellow Book referred to appears to be the inference drawn by the French Chargé d'Affaires from a conversation with Lord Salisbury. The despatch of Sir E. Monson will be included in the papers, which are in course of preparation.