MR. BRYNMOR JONES (Swansea District)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether one Herakles, the servant and muleteer of a British subject, was, on or about the 10th May, arrested by the Turkish authorities at Candia on the ground that he had no pass or permit, though Sir Herbert Chermside had permitted the said Herakles to enter Candia, and told him to report himself to the police, and to say that he (Sir Herbert Chermside) had sent him; whether the said Herakles was kept in a noisome den foul from ordure for some 36 hours; whether a telegram addressed to the British subject in question, on behalf of his servant, to the French commandant at Sitia, was suppressed; and, if so, by whom, and under what authority; what is Sir Herbert Chermside's position in regard to the Turkish authorities at Candia; and whether he will state the terms of the instructions given to that officer?
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. CURZON,) Lancashire, SouthportHer Majesty's Consul in Crete telegraphed on the 27th ultimo that he was forwarding by post a Report containing satisfactory explanations on the incident referred to in this question, but the dispatch has not yet arrived.