HC Deb 18 December 1888 vol 332 cc649-50
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)

I beg leave to notice an error in the report of a reply which I gave to an hon. Member last night, who asked whether compensation had been demanded on behalf of the British Indians whose property was destroyed by the bombardment of Minengani, in Tunghi Bay. I am represented to have said that the bombardment of Bagamoyo, from our point of view, was unnecessary, and carried out with unnecessary severity; whereas it is apparent that I was not referring to that place at all, and the question of the losses of British Indians at Bagamoyo was not referred to till afterwards. The remarks of the hon. Member for North St. Pancras (Mr. Cochrane-Baillie) in regard to Minengani are, I observe, similarly applied to Bagamoyo.

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