§ MR. STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will now lay upon the Table copies of the Reports addressed to Sir Nicholas O'Conor during the past eighteen months by His Majesty's consular officers in Macedonia; and whether he is able to give any information as to communications addressed by the Powers to the Porte with reference to the condition of European Turkey.
§ LORD CRANBORNEis Majesty's Government will consider whether the Papers mentioned can be presented. His Majesty's Government have urged on the Porte that while adequate measures should be taken for preventing disorders, anything in the nature of excessive or indiscriminate severity should
† See (4) Debates, lxxviii., 282.472 be carefully avoided. They believe that similar advice has been given by other Powers.