HC Deb 22 April 1907 vol 172 cc1393-4
MR. LYNCH

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can state the number of violent deaths which occurred in the three vilayets of Macedonia for the periods from the 1st October, 1905, to the end of Febuary, 1906, and from the 1st October, 1906, till the end of Febuary, 1907; and whether he will obtain statistics showing the number of deaths due to violence in these vilayets for each month for the years 1905, 1906, and for the expired portion of 1907.

(Answered by Secretary Sir Edward Grey.) His Majesty's Government have no complete records of the numbers of violent deaths in Macedonia previous to December 1905. The following are the figures for the months from and including December 1905 up to the end of February last:—

1905. December 53
1906. January 73
February 56
March 116
April 223
May 243
June 151
July 170
August 76
September 120
October 99
November 73
December 56
1907. January 54
February 56

For the causes of these I must refer the hon. Member to my previous Answer to him on the 16th.†