HC Deb 25 May 1882 vol 269 c1611
BARON HENRY DE WORMS

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any report has been received by Her Majesty's Government in confirmation of the telegram published by the French papers stating that Smargon, a village in Russia, has been destroyed by fire, and that the Jewish children were burnt one by one by the populace in the Jewish cemetery of the village?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

No, Sir; we have received no confirmation of the newspaper paragraph in question.

BARON HENRY DE WORMS

asked whether the Consul General had reported; or whether instructions had been given to him to report?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

I will ask the hon. Gentleman whether he thinks the paragraph in question worthy of credence? We have every reason to believe the paragraph is totally unworthy of credence.