Ward A.W. The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy. 1783-1919. Volume 3
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readiness
of
Bulgaria
to
hold
her
hand,
the Balkan
sky
remained
dark
with
clouds.
Sarafoff,
the
leader of
the
militant Macedonian
Bulgars,
announced
his refusal
to
lay
down his
arms,
adding
that the Christians
of
Macedonia were
prepared
to sell
their lives
dearly
and
to
make
Europe
shudder.
These
gloomy
prognostications
were
promptly
realised.
On March
30th
a
bridge
was blown
up
shortly
before the
arrival
of the Orient
Express,
and
the Russian
Consul
at
Mitrovitza
was shot
by
an
Albanian,
while Albanian
tribesmen
attacked Turkish
troops
in Old
Serbia.
The Russian and
Austrian
Ambassadors
sharply
ordered the
Sultan to
repress
Albanian
lawlessness and
to
carry
out
the
reforms,
and
invited Great Britain to
support
their
representa-
tions. At
this
moment, however,
an
attack
on a
bank
at
Salonica
by
Bulgarians
enabled
the
Grand-Vizier
to renew his
complaints
of
Bulgarian
bands
and
to
threaten hostilities.
Bulgaria,
in
turn,
urged
the
Powers to
warn
Turkey
not to concentrate
troops
on her
frontier
but
to
push
on
with
the reforms.
Lord
Lansdowne,
however,
declined
to
take
action,
as
Turkey
denied
aggressive
intentions.
Turkey required
her
troops
elsewhere
;
for
in
July
the
anticipated
explosion
occurred
in Macedonia.
"The insurrection is so
formid-
able,"
reported
Sir
Nicolas
O'Conor on
August
10th,
"that
Turkey
will need all
her forces for
its
repression;
and
the
insurgents'
acts
will
probably
provoke reprisals,
which
will
compel European
inter-
vention,
as is
their
aim.
I
suggest
that
Military
Attaches should
accompany
the
troops."
The
insurgents
stood
no
chance
against
the
regulars,
and on
August 31st
Bulgaria
appealed
to the Powers.
Austria
and Russia
proposed
a
warning
from
the
Powers
to
Turkey
and
Bulgaria,
that
neither could
count
on
support
if
they
resisted the
Austro-Russian
programme
;
but
Lord
Lansdowne
replied
that the time
had come
for
the
stronger
measures which he had from
the first
held
himself free to
propose.
No Mussulman
could now secure
the
con-
fidence
of
the
population
as
Inspector-
General,
and
Military
Attaches
should
accompany
the
troops.
Turkey
should be informed
that
the
February
programme
was
the
minimum,
that
its
execution
was
lamentably
inadequate,
and
that
far
prompter
and more effective
measures were needed. The
Powers should
join
in
these
representa-
tions;
and,
if
Bulgaria
was
told
that
such
action was
being
taken,
this
might
calm her.
Without
waiting
for
joint
action,
Lord Lansdowne
warned
Sofia
against aggressive
action,
and
reminded the
Porte
of
the
inevitable effect
of
the
"quite
inexcusable" acts
of
the
Turkish
armies
on
European
opinion.
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AGREEMENTS,
1902-1907
The rebellion
was
over
by
the
end of
September
;
and
the
Foreign
Secretary
now forwarded
suggestions
to
Vienna,
where Counts Lams-
dorff
and Goluchowski
were
engaged
on
a fresh
scheme
of
reform.
A Christian
Governor,
unconnected
with the Balkans
or
the Great
Powers,
or a
Mussulman,
assisted
by European
Assessors,
selected
by
Austria
and
Russia,
was
to
be
appointed,
and
European
officers,
in
adequate
numbers,
were to
reorganise
the Gendarmerie.
Turkey
was
to
withdraw
her
troops
from
the
Bulgarian
frontier,
and
Austria
and Russia
would
guarantee
that
Bulgaria
would
not
send
troops
or
allow bands across the frontier. The
Austrian and Russian Govern-
ments
thanked
the British Minister
for
his
suggestions, adding
that
they
were
in accord with decisions
reached
at
Murzsteg
before
they
were received.
Lord
Lansdowne
replied
that
he
hoped
they
would not
be content with
promises,
and
that the withdrawal
of
irregulars,
the
appointment
of
European
officers to
accompany
the
troops,
and the
organisation
of relief need
not wait.
When
the
Turkish Ambassador
urged
him
to
forbid relief
through
private
channels,
since
it
would
encourage agitators,
he
sharply replied
that he was
shocked
beyond
measure
that the
Turkish
Government wished to
deny
such assistance
to
the thousands rendered homeless
mainly by
the
conduct of Turkish
troops,
and
expected
the
Turkish authorities to render
every facility
for
supplying
it.
On October
24th
the Austrian and Russian
Ambassadors
brought
the
Murzsteg programme
to
Downing
Street.
1
.
Civil
Agents
of Austria and Russia were to
accompany
the
Inspector-
General,
call his attention to the needs
of
Christians
and the
misdoings
of
the local
authorities,
watch the
introduction
of
reforms
and the
pacification
of
the
country,
and
report
to
their
respective
Governments.
2.
A
foreign
General,
with
foreign
officers,
should be
appointed
to
the
gendarmerie, dividing
up
the
country
for
supervision,
instruction
and
organisation.
3.
After the
pacification
of the
country,
Turkey
should
modify
the
boundaries
of the
administrative
units,
with a
view
to
the more
regular
grouping
of the
nationalities.
4.
The administrative and
judicial
institutions
should
be
reorganised,
and
Christians
be
admitted
to
the
public
service.
5.
Mixed
Committees,
with an
equal
number
of Christians
and
Mohammedans,
should
enquire
into the
crimes committed
during
the
recent
troubles.
'
i
6.
Turkey
should
pay
for
the
repatriation
of Christian
refugees,
and the
rebuilding
of
houses,
churches
and schools
destroyed
by
Turks. The
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MURZSTEG
PROGRAMME
377
money
should be
distributed
by
Committees on
which Christian
notables
would
sit,
under
the
supervision
of
Austrian
and
Russian
Consuls.
7.
A
year's
taxes
should
be
remitted to
Christians
in
the burnt
villages.
8.
Turkey
should
undertake to
introduce
the reforms of
the
February
and
the
Miirzsteg
programmes
without
delay.
9.
The
irregulars
should
be
disbanded.
Five
days
later,
the
Austrian
Ambassadorcalled
to
ask
for
the
Foreign
Secretary's
comments
and
impressions.
Lord
Lansdowne
replied
that
it
would
be
better
to
dispense
with Hilmi
Pasha,
and
that
the
reorgan-
isation
of
the
Administration and
Judiciary
should
not be
deferred
till
after
pacification.
He
regretted
the
absence of
any
reference
to
finance,
which
lay
at the
root
of all
Macedonian
reforms.
Count
MensdorfT
explained
that
finance
had
been
dealt with
in
the
February
programme
;
and
the
interview
closed
with
a
promise
that the
British
Government
would
support
the
scheme,
reserving
the
right
to
make
further recom-
mendations.
At the
same
moment Lord
Lansdowne
instructed Sir
N.O'Conor
to tell
the
Porte,
if
it asked
for
the
British
view,that
the new
programme
was an
improvement
on
that
of
February,
and
to advise
its
acceptance
in
principle
and
the discussion of
its details
in
a
con-
ciliatory
spirit.
The
Porte turned a deaf
ear to this
appeal,
declaring
that
the
Assessors were
needless,
that the
Gendarmerie
required
no
foreign
General,
that the
foreign
officers
must
not interfere
with the
troops,
that
the
February programme
was
being
carried
out,
and
that
nothing
more
was
necessary.
But,
after
a
peremptory warning
from
Austria and
Russia,
supported
by
Germany,
the
Miirzsteg programme
was
accepted
by
the Sultan in
principle.
An
Austrian and
a
Russian
Assessor were
appointed,
and
General
di
Giorgis
was
selected
for
the
Gendarmerie,
with
headquarters
at
Salonica.
Colonel
Fairholme,
Military
Attache at
Vienna,
was chosen as
the
British Staff
Officer
for the
Gendarmerie,
and
Lord
Lansdowne in-
sisted
that
he
should
be
paid
by
Great
Britain
and
wear
British
uniform.
An
attempt
to
prevent
the
appointment
of
subordinate officers
brought
a
sharp
rebuke
from
Downing
Street,
and,
after a
warning
from
Petrograd
and
Vienna,
Turkey
consented
to
twenty-five
officers,
of
whom
Great
Britain
chose
five.
Macedonia
was
divided into
zones,
Great Britain
undertaking
Drama.
Germany
undertook
no
zone,
but
supplied
a
Director for
the
Gendarmerie school
at
Salonica.
An
agree-
ment
between
Turkey
and
Bulgaria
in
April
removed the
fear
of
another
rising.
The
Civil
Agents reported
the
presentation
of
hundreds
of
petitions,
and,
by
the
summer,
thirty-eight
foreign
officers
were at
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CONTINENTAL
AGREEMENTS,
1902-1907
work.
The
experienced
British
Consul,
Mr R.
W.
Graves,
reported
from
Salonica
a
temporary
improvement,
but added
that it would
not
last
unless
finance and the
judiciary
were
reformed. Lord
Lansdowne,
in
acknowledging
and
approving
the
reports
of
the Civil
Agents,
ex-
pressed
a
hope
that
Russia and
Austria would
prepare
and
press
a
scheme
for
regular budgets,
control
over
expenditure
and
adequate
salaries
for
the
Judiciary.
At
the
end
of
the
year,
the
Sultan,
after
repeated
refusals,
consented
to
accept
twenty-
three more
officers
for
the
Gendarmerie,
on
condition that
no
further
increase
should be
demanded.
Lord
Lansdowne,
whose
heart
was in his
work,
never
believed
in
the
adequacy
of
the Austro-
Russian
programmes,
and on
January
nth,
1905,
he
outlined
bolder
measures
in
a
despatch.
Disquieting
reports
of
murders and of armed bands
crossing
the frontiers
pointed
to
an
outbreak
in
the
spring.
The
Turkish
forces
in
or
near Macedonia
numbered
130,000
and were
increasing,
while
Bulgaria
was
com-
pleting
her
military
preparations.
No
part
of
the
reform scheme
had
been
carried
out
except
the
organisation
of
the
Gendarmerie,
in which
the
European
officers
were still
too few. The first
demand
to
be
pressed
was
the immediate reduction
of
the
troops
in
and
near
Macedonia
to the
number
required
for
internal
order,
while
Bulgaria
was
to make a
corresponding
reduction and
prevent
the
organisation
of
bands.
The
second
was for
the
appointment
of a Commission
of
Delegates,
nominated
by
the Powers and
under
the
presidency
of
the
Inspector-
General,
possessing
administrative
and
executive
powers.
Financial reforms
should include the commutation
of
the
tithes,
and
provide
for
a
fixed
payment
to
the Porte
by
each
vilayet,
the balance
remaining
for local
purposes.
The
Inspector-
General,
assisted
by
the
Commission,
might
command the
troops.
This scheme
should include
some
districts,
especially
the
vilayet
of
Adrianople,
to
which the
Murzsteg programme
did
not
apply,
but
which the
Porte
held to
be
included
in
the
February programme
of
1903.
Meanwhile,
Russia and Austria
presented
a financial reform
scheme
according
to which
all Macedonian
revenues should
pass
through
the
local branches
of
the
Ottoman
Bank,
which should
control
its
expenditure
under the
supervision
of
the
Inspector-General
and the
Civil
Agents.
Moreover,
if the
money
was
earmarked for
Macedonian
reforms
and
compensation
to the Christian
victims
of
1903,
the two
Powers
were
willing
to
agree
to the
raising
of
the
customs
from
eight
to ten
per
cent.
Turkey's reply
was a
rival
scheme
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FINANCIAL
COMMISSION
379
of
financial
reform
without
foreign
control;
but
Lord
Lansdowne
refused
to
accept
either
the one
or
the
other. Before he consented to
the
raising
of
the
customs,
he must ask
why
the deficit could
not
be
diminished
by
reducing
the
troops
and
must
obtain
a
guarantee
that
the
proceeds
would
go,
not to
the
Ottoman
Bank,
which
was
unequal
to the
task,
but to
some
competent
authority
which
would
apply
them
to
the
Macedonian reforms. Russia and
Austria
consented that the
other Powers
should
send
Delegates
to
cooperate
with
their
Civil
Agents
in
the
supervision
of
finance.
The
appointment
of
Financial
Delegates
now
became
the official
policy
of
the
Powers,
and,
in
August,
the
six Ambassadors
urged
Turkey
to allow
them
to exercise
their
functions
in
cooperation
with
the
Civil
Agents.
When
she
refused,
the Powers
announced that their
Delegates
would
proceed
to
join
the Civil
Agents
at
Uskub.
In
view
of
Turkish
recalcitrance,
Lord
Lansdowne
suggested
a naval demonstration and
urged
that it should
be
utilised
for
a
purpose
beyond
that
of
merely
securing
assent to the
Financial Commission.
A Collective Note
accordingly
demanded
the
extension of the mandates
of
the
Inspector-General,
the
Civil
Agents
and
the
Gendarmerie
for
two
years
longer,
the
recognition
of
the
four
Financial
Delegates,
and the
acceptance
of
the
Reglement
of the
Financial
Commission,
which was
to consist
of
the
Inspector-
General,
the Austrian and
Russian Civil
Agents,
and a
Delegate
from each
of the four
other
Powers,
with
headquarters
at Salonica. After a
demonstration at
Mitylene by
ships
of all the
Powers,
except Germany,
and the
occupation
of
the custom-house and
telegraph
office,
the
Sultan
yielded
to
necessity.
At
this
very
time, however,
Lord Lans-
downe
left the
Foreign
Office,
having
placed
Great Britain at the
head
of
the
European
Concert and secured
at least
partial
control
of
the
finances
of
Macedonia,
in which he had
always
discerned
the true
key
to
reform.
Sir
Edward
Grey,
finding
the Concert
"
exhausted
by
the effort
it
had
made,"
was
reluctantly
compelled
for a
time
to
play
a
watching
game.
But,
while the Macedonian
question
slumbered,
a new cause
of
conflict
arose
through
an
attempt
by
the Turks to extend
their
authority
on
the
Egyptian
frontier
1
.
Under
the
firman
issued
on
the
accession
of
the
Khedive Abbas
in
1892,
the administration
of the
Sinai
Peninsula
was
recognised
as
belonging
to
Egypt
;
for
a
telegram
from
Lord
Cromer,
defining
the frontier
by
a line
from
El Arish
to
the head of
the
Gulf of
Akaba
was,
without
objection
from
the
Porte,
1
Correspondence
respecting
the
Tut
co-Egyptian
Frontier, 1906,
Cd.
3006.
380
CONTINENTAL
AGREEMENTS,
1902-1907
annexed
to
the
firman and
formed
part
of
it.
In
1905,
owing
to the
lawlessness
of
the
nomads,
a
British
official
was
sent to
report,
and
was
subsequently
appointed
Commandant and
Inspector
of
the
Peninsula.
He
was
provided
with
a
small
force and
proceeded
to
construct
a
rest-house,
barracks and
a
mosque
at
Nekhl. The
task
of
the
Mission was
purely
administrative;
but the
Turks,
suspecting
interference
with the
Hedjaz
railway
and
intrigues
with
the
Yemen
rebels,
occupied
Tabah,
a
post
within the line
of
1892.
On
January
12th,
1906,
the Sultan
complained
to
Sir N.
O'Conor
that a
British
officer
and
Egyptian
troops
were
camped
close to
Akaba and
had
announced
their intention to erect
guard-houses
there
and
at other
points
within
the
Turkish
territory,
and asked for
their
withdrawal.
A
similar
complaint
was made to the
Khedive,
who
denied
the
charge
of
trespass
and
suggested
a discussion
between
a Turkish
and an
Egyptian
Commissioner.
The
Porte
haughtily replied
that
no
question
of
frontier
was
involved,
since
Egypt
formed
part
of
Turkey.
Turkish
troops
now
occupied
other
posts
within the
line of
1892,
and
it
was
discovered that
boundary-posts
at
the Mediterranean end of
the
peninsula
had been overthrown.
On March
31st,
Mukhtar
Pasha,
the
Turkish
Commissioner
in
Egypt,
formally
claimed Tabah as
within
the
Akaba
district,
and demanded
that the
boundary-line
should
be
drawn from
El
Rafeh
to
Suez and from Suez
to
Akaba. The Khedive
appealed
to the firman
of
1892,
and
again
offered
a
Delimitation
Commission.
Lord
Cromer,
already
rendered anxious
by
the
Pan-
Islamic ferment in
Egypt,
now
perceived
that
he was
confronted
with
a deliberate
attempt
to
carry
the Turkish frontier
and
strategic
railways
to the
Canal.
On
May
2nd
the
British
Ambassador informed
the
Grand-Vizier that the Turkish
troops
must evacuate
Tabah
within ten
days,
or
the
position
would become
grave.
The
French,
Russian
and
German Ambassadors advised the
Sultan
to
yield,
and
part
of
the Mediterranean fleet
was
sent to
Phalerum. At the
eleventh
hour the
Sultan
yielded,
and consented to
a
joint
Commission
on the
frontier line. The
posts
were
replaced,
and
the
frontier
line fixed
in
1892
was
confirmed;
but the brief
crisis left
its mark
in
the
increase
of the
British
troops
in
Egypt.
Meanwhile,
Turkey
passively
obstructed
the
working
of the
re-
form
machinery
in
Macedonia,
and
the
Financial Commission
com-
plained
that the
funds for
the
deficits
on
the
Macedonian
budget
were not
forthcoming.
The
brightest
feature
in the
landscape
was
the
Gendarmerie
;
but the condition
of
the
hapless country
went
from
THE
GENDARMERIE AND
THE
BANDS
381
bad
to
worse.
Hideous
lists were
sent home
every
month
by
British
Consuls,
tabulating
the
savage
outrages
committed
by
the
rival
bands.
The Government at
Sofia
seemed
to Sir
Edward to
be
doing
its
best,
and
the
Greeks
now won
the
unenviable
distinction
of
being
the
chief offenders. On
January
9th, 1907,
Sir
Edward
informed
the
Austrian
and Russian
Ambassadors
that
something
would
have to
be
done
in
the
year
that was
opening.
The
most
urgent
needs,
he
pro-
ceeded,
were the
enlargement
of
the
powers
of
the
Financial
Com-
mission,
and
the
entrusting
of
the
foreign
officers in
the Gendarmerie
with
some form of
executive
authority.
At
this
moment,
General
Giorgis
visited
Constantinople,
and
discussed with
Sir Nicolas
O'Conor
the
lessons of
his three
years'
work.
Despite
obstruction
from civil and
military
authorities,
he
declared,
the
corps
had been
radically
reformed. He did
not desire to raise the
question
of
executive
powers
for
the
officers,
which Lord Lansdowne had
vainly
endeavoured
to secure
in
1904.
Sir
Nicolas
therefore contented
himself
with
urging
the Sultan
to
accept
the demands
which
the General
proceeded
to
make.
The
British
Representative
on the
Financial
Commission,
H. P.
(afterwards
Sir H.
P.) Harvey,
reported hopefully
on
its
work,
and
paid
a
tribute to
Hilmi
Pasha's
courtesy
and
helpfulness
;
and in
April,
1907,
Sir Edward
Grey,
in view of the
recurring
deficits,
agreed
to
the
raising
of
the customs
duties
by
three
per
cent.,
to take effect
in
July.
At
the same
moment,
he
informed Benckendorff
that,
though
the
administration was
improved,
the
Powers must
in his
opinion
make
a
much
more serious effort
to
stop
the
bands.
The
Greek
bands
are at the
root of
the whole
problem.
The Greek
Government
must be
sharply
warned,
as
they
are
helped
by
Greek
officers,
recruited in
Greek
territory,
and
supported by money
from outside. It is
too
bad that
the efforts
of
the Powers
to
improve things
in
Macedonia,
which
would
have been successful
but for
the
bands,
should be
destroyed
and
defied in
this
way.
The
attitude
of
the
Foreign
Secretary
was
explained
to
a
deputation
from
the Balkan
Committee
on
July
9th,
which
complained
of what
appeared
to be a
policy
of drift.
The
reforms,
he
declared,
had had
considerable
success,
and
the
Financial
Commission
and
the
increased
customs
funds
could
not but
do
good.
But
the intervention
of the
Powers had
set
up
the
expectation
of
partition,
and the
bands were
busy
pegging
out
claims.
The
plan
of
a
Governor
of Macedonia
appointed
by
the
Powers,
suggested
by
Lord Lansdowne
in
1903
and
382
CONTINENTAL
AGREEMENTS,
1902-1907
approved
by
the
deputation,
could not
be
proposed
by
us
alone,
and
would
offend certain
Powers.
We were not
the whole conscience of
Europe.
We should concentrate
on
the
suppression
of
the
bands and
on
judicial
reform. We
would
do our
utmost to
maintain the Concert
and
render it
effective
;
but
Powers nearer the
centre
of
disturbance
possessed
a
special
interest.
The
emphatic
refusal
to take the
initiative
chilled
the
deputation,
and
conveyed
a
misleading
impression
of
the
deep
interest
which
Sir Edward
Grey
felt
in
the
problem.
In
consequence
of
British
pressure,
the Austrian
and
Russian
Governments
addressed
a
joint
Note
on
September
30th
to
Greece,
Bulgaria
and
Servia.
The
bands,
it
was
suggested,
were now
fighting
each
other,
partly
owing
to
a
misunderstanding
of
Article
III
of
the
Miirzsteg
programme.
The Committees
apparently thought
that,
if
they enlarged
the
area
of
their
nationality,
it would serve as the basis
for
delimitation.
The Austrian and
Russian
Governments
now
stated
that
changes
in
the
delimitation
of
national
limits
might
be recom-
mended
to
Turkey
after the
disappearance
of
the
bands.
Article
III
had
been
wrongly
interpreted
as
conveying
the
intention
to divide
the
country
into national
spheres. Only relatively unimportant
changes,
to facilitate the
work of local
authorities,
were
contemplated.
Any
delimitation
would
ignore
the
regrouping
of
nationalities
brought
about
by
the
activities
of
the
bands. This
being
so,
the
Greek,
Bul-
garian
and Servian Governments
must
try
to
stop
the
bands
receiving
support.
The
Austro-Russian
Note
was
supported
by
the Ministers
of
the
other
Powers;
but not
one
of
the
Balkan
States
admitted
Article
III
to
be a cause
of
the trouble.
Bulgaria
rejoined
that
she
had never
wished
to
partition
or
annex
Macedonia.
Servia
pointed
out
that
Bulgarian
bands
began
in
the summer
of
1903
before
the
Miirzsteg
programme,
and
that
the first Servian band
was
only
formed in
1904
to
defend Servian
villages against
Bulgarian
attacks.
The
Sultan,
moreover,
was
as
stubborn
as
ever,
and
it
was
only
after
weeks
of
pressure
and
menace that
he
gave way
and
renewed
all
the
mandates
till
19 14.
BOOK
VI
BEFORE
AND
IN
THE
WORLD
WAR,
1907-1919
SECRETARIES
OF
STATE FOR
FOREIGN
AFFAIRS
December,
July,
October,
Sir
Edward
Grey,
Bart,
(afterwards
Viscount
Grey
of
Fallodon).
1916:
Right
Hon. Arthur
James
(afterwards
Earl
of)
Balfour.
1918
:
Right
Hon. Lord Robert Cecil
(Assistant
Secretary of
State
till
January
1919).
1919
: Earl
(afterwards Marquis)
Curzon of
Kedleston.
UNDER-SECRETARIES
OF STATE
FOR FOREIGN
AFFAIRS
Louis
(afterwards Right
Hon. Sir
Louis)
Mallet
(Assistant).
Walter L.
F.
G.
(afterwards
Sir
Walter)
Langley
(Assistant).
Thomas
(afterwards
Right
Hon.
Thomas)
M
c
Kinnon Wood
(Parliamentary)
.
Right
Hon. Sir
Arthur
Nicolson,
Bart,
(afterwards
Lord
Carnock)
(Permanent).
Francis
(afterwards
Right
Hon.
Francis)
Dyke
Acland
(Par-
liamentary).
Sir
Eyre
Crowe
(Assistant).
Sir
Ralph
S.
Paget
(afterwards
Right Hon.) (Assistant).
Hon. Neil
J.
A. Primrose
(Parliamentary).
:
Right
Hon.
Lord
Robert
Cecil
(Parliamentary,
afterwards
As-
sistant
Secretary of State).
: Lord
Hardinge
of
Penshurst.
: Sir Ronald W. Graham
(Assistant).
:
Commander the
Right
Hon. Frederick
Leverton
Harris
(As-
sistant).
: Sir
Arthur
Steel-Maitland,
Bart.
(Additional Parliamentary).
:
Right
Hon.
Sir
Laming
Worthington Evans,
Bart.
(Par-
liamentary).
: Sir
William
G.
Tyrrell (Assistant).
: Colonel Sir
Hamar
Greenwood,
Bart.
(Additional Parliamentary).
May,
July,
October,