§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether all due precautions have been taken to prevent injury and loss by the falling of the face of the cliff at Dover, and other injuries, consequent on the firing of the powerful guns in battery at the end of Dover Pier?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON,in reply, said, the advisers of the War Office had been consulted on this matter, and they had recommended that certain precautions should be taken in the event of the guns being fired.