§ MR. STANLEY LEIGHTONasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether the Military support from Abyssinia, to obtain which Admiral Hewett's mission was despatched to King John, has yet been supplied to the besieged Egyptian garrisons; and, if not, whether it has yet been arranged when our Abyssinian Allies will invade the Soudan?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEThe conduct of the evacuation of the garrisons referred to has been intrusted by the Egyptian Government to Mason Bey, and Captain Speedy has been appointed by Her Majesty's Government to advise the Abyssinians in carrying out the Treaty of June 3. There is no question in that Treaty of an invasion of the Soudan by Abyssinia. By the Third Article of the Treaty the King of Abyssinia engages to facilitate the withdrawal of the Egyptian troops through his territory to Massowah.
§ MR. STANLEY LEIGHTONAre the garrisons being relieved now through Abyssinia?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEArrangements are being made by Mason Bey and Captain Speedy with that object.