§ MR. FRANCIS STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the attention of the Foreign Office has been called to the telegram in The Daily News of the 15th instant, in which it is stated that three Armenian churches have been gutted by Moslem mobs at Caesarea; that 510 Armenians of that place are in prison; that in Yozgat the prisons are full, and 65 leading Armenians are imprisoned in the military barracks near the city; that goods coming by caravan addressed to Christian merchants are pillaged by Moslem villagers on the road, so that orders for goods from Constantinople cannot be made good; and that all business is at a standstill; whether the Turkish Government are acting in accordance with the 61st Article of the Berlin Treaty in permitting the continuance of that state of things; and whether any remonstrances will be made with the object of securing the proper observance of the stipulations contained in the Treaty?
§ SIR E. GREYThe attention of the Foreign Office has been called to the telegram. We have had no confirmation of the statement that three Armenian churches have been gutted, but we have heard that in consequence of the posting of seditious placards a number of persons were imprisoned. The Grand Vizier hag informed Her Majesty's Ambassador that the Governor General of Angora would proceed at once to Caesarea to report on the state of affairs.