§ DR. CAMERON (Glasgow, College)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he has received any information regarding the alleged firing by Spanish Custom House officers on a Portuguese lifeboat which was going to the assistance of the crew of the British Princess, shipwrecked near the Hispano-Portuguese Frontier?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)Full inquiry has been made by the Consul at Oporto, who states that the report was incorrect. The only survivors of the crew were rescued by Spanish boatmen. No Portuguese lifeboat was on the spot. After the survivors had been rescued, some shots were fired to prevent Portuguese boatmen from seizing floating wreckage. This appears to have given rise to the report.