Home, Dec. 13.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, speaking in the Chamber, said that Italy had insisted upon exemplary reparation being made for the forcible arrest of the British Consul at the Italian Consulate in Hodeida.
The Ottoman Government had replied that communication between Constantinople and Hodeida was interrupted (Loud murmurs). The Minister for Foreign Affairs said that he had telegraphed again, demanding an immediate reparation (Loud cheers).
'A number of deputies, amid cheers, strongly insisted that Italy's Sencar and dignity should be up-
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