§ MR. THORNE (West Ham, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to the unchecked massacre of Jews at Biolostoc now going on; whether he has observed the execution by hanging of children of tender age by the Russian Government at Riga; whether he has been informed of the systematic persecution of innocent people at Moscow, Kieff, Warsaw, and other large towns; and whether, seeing that this country broke off diplomatic relations with Servia, and constantly remonstrates with Turkey for less serious outrages, he will consider whether the time has come that Great Britain should protest formally against the continuance of such practices by the Russian Government, and break off diplomatic relations until they are put an end to.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir EDWARD GREY,) Northumberland, BerwickThe Answer is in the negative.
§ MR. J. RAMSAY MACDONALD (Leicester)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the outbreak of Jewish massacres in Western Russia in which the Russian authorities are implicated; and whether, in consequence, he will reconsider the propriety of sending 361 British warships at the present moment on a friendly official visit to Russian Baltic ports.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYI cannot add anything to the Answer I gave the other day to the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydvil.†