§ EARL GRANVILLEI beg to ask the noble Marquess at the head of the Government whether there is any objection to state what was the object of the visit of Inspector Melville, of the Criminal Investigation Department, to the house of two Armenian gentlemen, the manager and editor of an Armenian journal; and whether such visit was paid in consequence of any communication from the Turkish Government; and, if so, what the communication was?
§ THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURYIt was in consequence of a communication from the Turkish Government that my attention was aroused to this matter. The Turkish Ambassador asked us to suppress a certain Armenian journal called the Haiasdan. I, of course, at once answered the Turkish Ambassador that we could not suppress the journal; and therefore, so far as the Turkish Government was concerned, there the matter ended. But, as I wanted to know whether the journal was published in London or in Paris, I asked the Home Office to make inquiry, and I presume that is the reason why Inspector Melville was sent.