§ * SIR ELLIS ASHMEAD-BARTLETTI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether her Majesty's Government have information confirming the statements in the Press that the Mussulman village of Dospat in the Rhodope district has been burned by Bulgarian marauders, and the inhabitants, including women and children, massacred; whether other Mussulman villages have been treated in a similar way; and, whether her Majesty's Government will insist upon an investigation being made with regard to these atrocities similar to that conducted into the alleged outrages in Armenian districts?
* MR. CURZONHer Majesty's Government have received no authoritative information confirming the alleged attack upon Dospat. As I said in my reply of Monday, the 19th, they have heard of the attack upon Yanakli, and representations have been addressed to the Bulgarian Government, which has given assurances of its intention to preserve order upon the frontier. As I also said on Monday, there appears to be no necessity for an investigation by the British Government.
§ * SIR E. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTasked whether the Bulgarian Government had promised that the persons who had committed this massacre would be punished?