HC Deb 29 April 1915 vol 71 c805
3. Sir J. D. REES

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has obtained any information regarding the treatment of prisoners taken by the Turks or interned in the Turkish Empire?

Sir E. GREY

His Majesty's Government have no information as to the treatment of the crew of submarine E 15, and on 23rd April requested the United States Ambassador to make inquiries as to the names of those taken prisoners, but have not yet received a reply. A certain number of merchant seamen are interned at Magnesia, near Smyrna. The United States Consul-General and the British Chaplain at that port are in touch with them, and the latter, once a week, visits the prisoners, who have received assistance from the American Red Cross Society.