§ MR. F. S. STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the statements that the murderers of Yussaf Yunan are men of straw, instructions will be sent to Her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople to press for the recovery of the stolen £500 direct from the Porte, instead of acquiescing in the Turkish proposal to recover the SUM in question by the sale of the murderer's goods; whether he will use every effort to secure that an adequate pension or compassionate allowance shall be paid to the dependants of Yussuf Yunan; and whether the sentences passed on the murderers have yet been carried out?
MR. CURZONI have no information to add to that which I gave to the hon. Member in an answer on the 15th, in which I said that orders had been sent by the Porte for the recovery of the money. If these measures prove ineffective it may become necessary to demand restitution direct from the Porte. I do not know if there are any special grounds in this case why a pension or allowance should be demanded for the dependents of the murdered man. Such a demand would appear to be of an unusual, character.