HC Deb 01 April 1898 vol 55 c1658
MR. T. C. H. HEDDERWICK (Wick Burghs)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any demand has been made by the Government upon the Porte for restitution of the sum of £500 belonging to the British Armenian Relief Fund, of which the murdered man Yussuf Yunnan was robbed at Sairt more than a year ago?

MR. CURZON

Her Majesty's Government are not yet in possession of any evidence which would justify them in presenting a claim to the Porte for the restitution of the sum mentioned.

MR. HEDDERWICK

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can now name an approximate date upon which the further correspondence relative to the murder of Yussuf Yunnan and the prosecution of his murderers will be laid upon the Table of the House?

MR. CURZON

Correspondence on the subject will be laid in the next Blue Book on Asiatic Turkey; but in consequence of the great pressure that has been put upon the Foreign Office for the immediate production of other Papers, I cannot give any promise as to the date on which it will appear.