§ Mr. RILEYasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he has received any information from the British Legation in Sofia as to the number of persons who have been arrested by the Bulgarian Government in connection with the explosion in the cathedral at Sofia on 16th April; if he has any information as to the number of persons who have been killed In resisting arrest, or by any other means following on the explosion in the cathedral: and if the Government will use its influence to induce the League of Nations to investigate and report upon the causes of the disturbed condition obtaining in Bulgaria?
§ Mr. McNEILLAccording to information received by His Majesty's Minister at Sofia, from official sources, the total number of persons arrested was 2, 000, of whom 400 were subsequently liberated, and 20 persons were killed while resisting arrest in Sofia. I have no reason to doubt these figures, but equally, no means of verifying them. I cannot say what number of persons have been killed in the provinces or otherwise than as a result of resisting arrest or what? casualties there may have been among the police or soldiers. As regards the last part of the question, it is no part of the functions of the League of Nations to interfere in the internal affairs of any country, so long as specific duties assigned to the League by treaty are not affected.