§ MR. MOON (St. Pancras, N.)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is yet in a position to give any further information as to the reorganisation of the gendarmerie in Macedonia, in particular the names of the British officers appointed; whether they have started from England; what are the areas to which the different gendarmerie battalions are to be allocated; and whether any British non-commissioned officers have been appointed to this service.
723 (Answered by Earl Percy.) As soon as the demands submitted to the Porte by the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Ambassadors have been accepted, and the General charged with the reorganisation of the gendarmerie leaves Constantinople for the purpose of taking up his duties, he will be met at Salonica by ten officers and eleven non-commissioned officers from England. The names of the officers and areas to which the several battalions are to be allocated cannot yet be given.