§ SIR A. HAYTER (Walsall)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can state what number of refugees who fled from the province of Adrianople in 1903 still remain in Bulgaria.
(Answered by Earl Percy.) The list furnished early in the year by the Bulgarian Government to the Turkish Government showed that about 300 536 families were awaiting repatriation to the vilayet of Adrianople. According to a Report from His Majesty's Consul at Adrianople, dated 2nd June, the Commissioners appointed by agreement between the two Governments to assist the work of repatriation had commenced regular sittings at two villages on the frontier, and up to that date about 130 refugees had presented themselves.