HC Deb 06 April 1911 vol 23 cc2581-2W
Mr. NOEL BUXTON

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the continuance of martial law in European Turkey and the disturbances recently reported, he will publish the Consular report for the past year?

Sir EDWARD GREY

By a recent Ministerial decree the state of siege in Constantinople has been prolonged indefinitely, but, as regards the rest of European Turkey, the system of trial by court-martial, which was introduced in Macedonia by the Turkish Government in the autumn of 1909, has been abolished, and the last of the courts-martial, that sitting at Kochana, concluded its labours in the month of February of this year. His Majesty's Government do not consider that any useful purpose would be achieved by the publication of the Reports received from His Majesty's Consular Officers in Macedonia during the year 1910.