§ MR. MORTONI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Military Commander at Tokat, who is referred to in the correspondence relative to the Armenian Question, presented to Parliament, in February 1896 (Turkey, No. 2, 1896, p. 329), as having shown great energy in protecting the town and preventing an attempted massacre of Armenians there on 15th November 1895, was removed by the Turkish Government shortly before the recent massacre at Tokat?
* MR. CURZONWe have never heard that the Military Commander at Tokat to whom the hon. Member alludes, was removed under the circumstances mentioned in the Question.
§ MR. MORTONasked whether, in view of the fact that the report of the removal of the Military Commander in question was reported in the Daily News of the 24th of last month, the right hon. Gentleman would inquire into the truth of the report?
* MR. CURZONI think that the hon. Member is under some misapprehension. The Military Commander of Tokat, to whom I think he refers, is the officer who was removed after the massacres, because he was held to have been partly responsible for them.