§ MR. CHANNING (Northampton, E.)On behalf of the honourable Member for the Eye Division of Suffolk, I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by what amount the proposed, conversion of the Ottoman Guaranteed Loan of 1855 will affect the annual tribute payable out of the revenues of Cyprus; and whether the British Government will take the opportunity afforded, by that conversion of obtaining full satisfaction for the claims in respect of losses sustained by British subjects during the Constantinople massacres of 1896, and also for the claims arising out of the murder of two British post-office officials at that time, and out of the murder and robbery of Yussuf Yunan, agent of the Armenian Relief Committee in this country?
MR. CURZONThe matter referred to being under consideration. I am unable to make any statement with regard to it.