§ SIR JOHN HAYasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether the Expeditionary Force, or any part of it, is to rendezvous at Limasol, and if Cyprus is to be used as a place of arms during the operations in the East?
§ MR. CHILDERSThe right hon. and gallant Baronet asks me a hypothetical Question—that is to say, to what use Cyprus will be devoted in the event of an Expeditionary Force going to the East? I must decline to violate two well-established rules, as I should do if I answered this Question. The one is not to answer any hypothetical Ques- 26 tions, and the other not to give information as to military movements. Perhaps I may, at the same time, say that the words "place of arms," or place d' armes, have been so differently interpreted that, under any circumstances, I should hesitate to apply them to a particular station.