§ MR. JAMES BRYCE (Aberdeen, S.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the attention of Her Majesty's Government has been called to a statement reported to have been made by the French Minister for Foreign Affairs in the French Chamber on 22nd February, that in November 1895 when the Powers were deliberating on the course to be pursued towards the Sultan with reference to the massacres in Armenia, England pronounced for pacific means; whether Her Majesty's Government accept that statement as correct; and whether if it is correct, he will inform the House in what Dispatch laid before Parliament such a decision of Her Majesty's Government is stated or referred to?
*MR. CURZONM. Hanotaux's actual words were that "England did not think fit to have recourse to other than pacific measures." This statement, which appears to be a general version on the part of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs of the attitude of Her Majesty's Government in the autumn of 1895, is not contained in any Dispatch.