§ MR. MOON (St. Pancras, N.)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign 220 Affairs whether he will specify the areas in the three vilayets commonly called Macedonia, which have been respectively allocated as the spheres of the gendarmerie officers of the five Powers, and approximately the superficial extent and population of each of the five areas.
(Answered by Earl Percy.) The areas in the three vilayets have been assigned as the spheres of the gendarmerie officers of the five Powers, in the following manner:—
- 1. Great Britain:
- Sandjak of Drama (all the cazas);
- Population about 52,000;
- Area about 1,080 square miles.
- 2. France:
- Sandjak of Serres (all the cazas);
- Population about 330,000;
- Area about 4,920 square miles.
- 3. Russia:
- Sandjak of Salonica (all the cazas);
- Population about 272,000;
- Area about 7,300 square miles.
- 4. Italy:
- Sandjak of Monastir (all the cazas except Ochrida) and the caza of Kastoria, in the sandjak of Koritza;
- Population about 200,000;
- Area about 3,780 square miles.
- 5. Austria:
- Sandjak of Uscub (all the cazas);
- Population about 500,000;
- Area about 4,150 square miles.