HC Deb 22 May 1883 vol 279 c701
SIR WILFRID LAWSON

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Her Majesty's Government have received any communication from Lord Dufferin, stating that he has refused to receive evidence, which was ready, implicating the Khedive in promoting the massacre at Alexandria on the 11th June, on the ground that he could not place the Khedive on his trial; and, whether the Government will now guarantee the protection of the witnesses who are prepared to give testimony connecting the Khedive with the massacre?

LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE

No communication of the kind referred to by my hon. Friend has been received by Her Majesty's Government from Lord Dufferin, and the eventuality contemplated in the second part of the Question has, consequently, not arisen.

SIR WILFRID LAWSON

Has no communication been received at all as to the action of Lord Dufferin?

LORD EDMOND FITZMALTRICE

I have said that no communication has been received.

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