§ SIR JOHN HAYasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If the British Military Cemetery at Abydos has recently been disturbed and the remains of the dead exhumed; and, if it be true, whether steps will be taken to insure the reburying of the dead and proper precautions taken to prevent any similar act of desecration?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEThe British Vice Consul at the Dardanelles reports that the French authorities, in 843 removing the remains of their dead from their Military Cemetery at Abydos to Gallipoli, by mistake began excavating in the English cemetery. On the error being pointed out, they ceased, and restored the ground to its previous state. We have only telegraphic information on this subject; and I think it better to wait until we get the Vice Consul's Report before stating anything as to future precautions for preventing desecration.