§ MR. F. S. STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any information has yet been obtained with regard to the Armenian prisoners at present confined at Aleppo, St. Jean d'Acre, Tripoli, in Barbary, and other fortresses in the Ottoman Empire?
§ SIR E. GREYInformation has been received that on the 28th of March there were 46 prisoners at Aleppo, of whom 27 were condemned a year ago in connection with the events at Zeitoun in 1890, and 13 were stated to be awaiting trial. We have also heard that an Armenian who had married a Moslem converted to Christianity had been exiled to Tripoli, of Barbary. Quite lately information was received that two Armenian professors had been exiled to Rhodes.
MR. GIBSON BOWLESWill the hon. Baronet make inquiry as to the names and condition of the prisoners in Siberia?
§ MR. F. S. STEVENSONWill endeavours be made to obtain information as to the names, numbers, and treatment of these Armenian prisoners?
§ SIR E. GREYWe constantly receive reports from our Representatives in Armenia as to the general state of affairs, but I cannot promise to go into details with regard to every prisoner.