§ MR. NOEL BUXTON (Yorkshire, N.R., Whitby)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps have been taken to enforce the Article of the Mürzsteg programme providing for the discontinuance of the formation of bands of Bashi-bazouks.
(Answered by Earl Percy.) A proclamation has been issued and communicated to the headmen of the Moslem villages stating that any Bashi-bazouks found with arms in their hands during disturbances will be tried by Court-martial, and, if found guilty, shot. In the Reports received from His Majesty's Consuls of recent encounters between the troops and the Bulgarian bands there is no mention of Bashi-bazouks, and in several cases attention is drawn to the fact that none were present.