§ MAJOR ANSTRUTHER-GRAYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any official information showing that Mr. Heathcote-Smith, the acting British vice-consul, was attacked and robbed by armed Albanians outside Uskub on Saturday last; and whether, in view of the fact that this is the second attack on British subjects in Turkish territory within the last few weeks, he will take action to prevent the recurrence of such attacks.
§ Mr. RUNCIMANMy right hon. friend has called for a Report on the case from His Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople, and he has received a telegram in reply from which it appears that the incident has been much exaggerated in the accounts published. Mr. Heathcote-Smith was, it is true, attacked by two Albanian robbers two miles from the town of Uskub, but he lost nothing but a book, and was not hurt. The Turkish authorities are doing all in their power to secure the arrest of the robbers, and my right hon. friend does not, therefore, consider it necessary to take any further stops in the matter for the present.