24 DECEMBER 1921, Page 2

Parliament was prorogued on Monday till January 31st. Mr. Chamberlain

said in the House of Commons that it was not thought desirable to wait for the decision of the Sinn Fein assembly on the proposed Treaty. Lord Robert Cecil took the opportunity of championing the cause of the unhappy Christians in Cilicia whom the French are leaving to their fate. He re- minded the House that the Allies had broken their promise to protect the Armenians, and he said that the Cilician Christians would now suffer more than they would have done if the French had never occupied the province. The debate was left unfinished, but it showed that the Christians in Turkey still have some friends left in Great Britain.