HC Deb 23 March 1920 vol 127 c222
4. Brigadier-General SURTEES

asked the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether, with reference to the so-called Armenian massacres in Cilicia, that district was garrisoned partly by coloured and partly by Armenian troops in the pay of Franco; whether the Armenians of the Légion d'Orient killed several Turks during the occupation; and whether the presence of these units alarmed the Turkish inhabitants of the district?

Mr. HARMSWORTH

The French Command in Cilicia included French Colonial coloured troops and a small Armenian contingent recruited locally by the French. No information is available on the points raised in the second and third parts of the question.

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