§ MR. BRYCEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether it is true, as reported in the newspapers on May 9th, that the Turkish Government is disarming, the Christian population of Armenia, while permitting the nomad Kurds to retain their arms; and, whether, if the statement is true, the British Ambassador will be instructed to point out to the Porte the danger of such a step, as putting the peaceable inhabitants of the country even more completely than they now are at the mercy of the robber tribes?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEA Report from Van, dated March 15, states that the authorities were taking certain measures in view of disaffection among the Armenians. The Armenian Council had been requested to send in a statement of all Societies existing among the Armenians, with their objects; and a Club which had been started a few months previously had been closed on account of speeches made there. No mention is made of disarming the Christian population. Her Majesty's Government will, however, ask whether there is any foundation for this Report.