QUESTIONS IN COMMONS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16904, 1 December 1922, Page 5

QUESTIONS IN COMMONS.

LONDON. November 29. Captain Wedgwood Benn (Liberal member for Leith), in the House of Commons, drew attention to the Greek ox-Mi nist-cr’s stateunent that they were cl-coi!raged bv the Foreign Secretary and other British Mini-;. r-. He asked Mr Bonar Law to table the relevant correspondence. Mr Bonar Law said he would consider the request. Mr Noel Buxton drew attention to the report that ?*l. Gounaris was dissuaded from withdrawing the armies in Asia Minor, before the Greek defeat, by members r,f the British Government. He asked the Premier to dear the late Government of this grave charge. Air Bonar Law said he knew nothing Lord Robert Cecil asked for precedents for the withdrawal of the British Minister from Athens. Air Bonar Law instanced Servia. Lord Robert Cecil : Servia was a cuse of murder, not of execution-. Air Boner Law said lie would consider whether there were precedents. Tt seemed to him that the just-ification for Mr Lindlyy’s withdrawal was that tbf executions wore not the work of file Government. but of a revolutionary committee. Tt was a. barbarous act, which the Government had tried to pievent.