§ MR. HOWORTH (Salford, S.)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If any punishment has been meted out to the owners and guarantors of slave dhows at Suakin, who have been shown to be engaged in running slaves; and, whether any steps have been taken to prevent the Government lessee of the salt mines at Korvajah from shipping slaves to Jeddah, as reported on page 229 of the Blue Book recently issued on the Red Sea Slave Trade?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Man-754 chester, N.E.) All owners or guarantors of vessels have been punished who have been convicted of acts of slave trading, or of participation in them. It will be seen, on reference to page 111 of the Blue Book, that the charge referred to in the second Question was very doubtful; but that every possible precaution was being taken against slave dealing.