§ 25. Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYasked the Prime Minister if he is aware that the activity of the agents of General Denikin's volunteer army in the Batoum district is causing apprehension among the inhabitants of the Georgian republic; and if he can state whether the Peace Conference has as yet come to any decision regarding the future of this district, which forms, historically, a part of Georgia, and is of strategical importance to the British Empire?
§ The PRIME MINISTERHis Majesty's Government are aware that, in the province and town of Batoum, as elsewhere in Trans-Caucasia, there is considerable agitation both for and against maintenance of the Russian connection. The answer to the second part of the question is in the negative. It is obviously impracticable to decide the future of Batoum apart from that of Trans-Caucasia as a whole.