GENERAL GOLDSWORTHT (Hammersmith)I desire to ask whether the Secretary of State for War can confirm the report that has appeared in the newspapers as to an accident to one of the 100-ton guns from Elswick?
§ * MR. E. STANHOPEYes, Sir; it is true that there has been an accident. I am sorry to say that a barge sank in the Thames yesterday, fir this morning, whilst carrying a 110-ton gun. The gun in question belongs to the Italian Government.