§ SIR WILFRID LAWSONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether it is by the advice of Lord Dufferin, and of the British financial adviser, that the Egyptian Government is providing for the new indemnity loan by cutting down the expenses for the general administration of the country?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICESir, the manner of providing funds for the indemnities awarded by the Commission has not yet been decided. I stated on Tuesday that the Egyptian Government was introducing economy into every Department of the Public Service, so as to avoid imposing fresh taxation on the already heavily-burdened peasantry.