§ ME. MOON (St. Pancras, N.)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will state under what diplomatic instrument and at what date certain Belgian and Swedish officers were appointed to posts connected with the gendarmerie of European Turkey; the numbers, duties, and respective ranks of such officers; and whether they have been or are likely to be detailed for work in the Adrianople vilayet.
(Answered by Earl Percy.) Two Swedish officers were appointed early in 1903, but their rank was not reported. Four Belgian officers, two lieutenant-colonels and two majors were appointed in August of the same year. The duties of these officers were described as those of inspection and reorganisation of the gendarmerie but the two Swedes seem to have been employed at Uscub during the first few months in revising the regulations. Since the arrival of their Belgian colleagues they have been distributed between Uscub, Monastir, and Salonica.