§ MR. F. A. CHANNINGI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether, having regard to the importance of obtaining the fullest disclosure of the truth as to events in Armenia, steps will be taken by the Foreign Office to secure the rights of British subjects to visit all parts of the Turkish Empire under the provisions of the Capitulalations of 1875 or otherwise?
§ SIR E. GREYThe right of foreigners to visit all parts of the Turkish Empire under the provisions of the Capitulations would not appear to affect the power claimed by every independent State of refusing to admit foreigners or allow them to travel when their presence 747 may be considered by it to be contrary to the public interest or dangerous to order. It has, however, been pointed out to the Porte that the movements of unoffending British travellers should not be interfered with.
§ MR. CHANNINGasked whether the answer referred to the whole of Asia Minor or only to the villages of Susan.
§ SIR E. GREYsaid it referred to the whole of Asia Minor.
§ MR. CHANNINGAnd to newspaper correspondents
§ SIR E. GREYsaid he had already intimated in his answer that each independent State claimed the right to a certain discretion as to whether newspaper correspondents should be admitted or not.