§ Mr. JAMES HOPEI desire to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a question of which I have given him private notice. Whether his attention has been called to statements that large numbers of non-belligerents and unarmed Albanians of both sexes (estimated in one account at 16,000) are being confined by the Turkish authorities to the marsh lands near Scutari, with the practical certainty of their death by malaria; whether he is in a position to confirm or deny the truth of these statements, and whether he is able to make any further announcement as to the progress made by the Powers towards the settlement of Albanian affairs?
Mr. McKINNON WOODI must ask the hon. Member to be good enough to put his question on the Paper, as I understand my right hon. Friend privately asked him to do.
§ Mr. JAMES HOPEAs a personal explanation, may I say that the right hon. Gentleman did not ask me not to ask the question to-day.