§ MR. FRANCIS STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is able to give any information with regard to the serious disturbances, accompanied by loss of life, which have occurred in the province of Diarbekir?
MR. CURZONHer Majesty's Government have received no confirmation of the reported disturbances and loss of life in the vilayet of Diarbekir.
§ MR. FRANCIS STEVENSONI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Great Britain and France have succeeded in securing the recall of the Governor of Diarbekir, whose continued presence was stated by their representatives at Constantinople to be likely to conduce to a fresh massacre?
MR. CURZONThe Turkish Government, in reply to the repeated representations made by the French Ambassador and Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Constantinople, have stated that the charges made against the Vali of Diarbekir are unfounded. The Vali has not so far been recalled; but the warnings given have been sufficient to call the serious attention of the Porte to the state of affairs existing in the vilayet.