§ Mr. R. RICHARDSONasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware tht a group of Russian refugees who, in 1920, refused to join Wrangel'e Army in the Crimea are now being supported by the British Treasury on the island of Cyprus; that military officers of the old regime in Russia have expressed the wish that these refugees should be transported to Serbia; that the refugees themselves fear that if this were done they would be mobilised against their will; whether they have expressed the desire to be sent into a European country, Czecho-Slovakia for example, where they would find work and at the end of three months cease to be a burden on the British Treasury; and what action His Majesty's Government proposes to take?
§ Earl WINTERTONI have no information regarding the points raised in the first three parts of the question. A request has been received from certain refugees in Cyprus asking that they might be sent to Czecho-Slovakia. With regard to the last part of the question, all refugees under British control were handed over to the League of Nations on 1st May, and all further arrangements for their maintenance will be made by the League.