DR. RUTHERFORD (Middlesex, Brentford)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government have invited, or propose to invite, the Sultan of Turkey 333 to organise mobile columns to suppress the Macedonian bands.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYProposals of the nature indicated are under the consideration of the Powers, but it would be premature to make any statement at present till their opinion is known.