§ MR. FLYNN (Cork, N.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Foreign Office is in possession of any information regarding recent alleged atrocities committed by Turkish officials upon unoffending Bulgarian peasants, and has the Government made any representation recently to the Sublime Porte in respect to its Treaty obligations in regard to its Christian subjects.
*TBE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Viscount CRANBORNE, Rochester)Rumours have recently been prevalent of acts of cruelty perpetrated by Turkish gendarmes in dealing with Bulgarian revolutionists in Macedonia. His Majesty's acting Consul at Salonica has inquired into the matter, and from his report it would appear that the reports are exaggerated. His Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople has called the attention of the Turkish Government to the matter, and has urged that every effort should be made by the Turkish authorities to prevent the execution of the law being attended with acts of cruelty.