§ Mr. CHANNING (Northamptonshire, E.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can state to the House who will represent Great Britain at the International Maritime Conference, to be held at Washington in October; and, whether Her Majesty's Government, having regard to the technical character of many of the questions to be discussed, will either include among the representatives two or more captains from the Merchant Service, who have had actual and recent experience of the present conditions under which signalling, whether in clear weather, or in fogs, or at night, has to be carried out in the North Atlantic, or will add to the number of official representatives two or more assessors, of practical experience, as above stated?
§ * SIR J. FERGUSSONIt is intended that the British representatives shall include persons of the qualifications mentioned; but the choice is not finally settled.
§ MR. CHANNINGThe right hon. Gentleman has not answered the second part of the question?
§ * SIR J. FERGUSSONIt is intended to include two merchant captains.
§ MR. CHANNINGI will put a question on the same subject on Thursday.