§ COLONEL NOLAN (Galway, N.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if all Papers received from Uganda have been published; if either Captain Lugard or Captain Williams, or both, are to be recalled; and what steps are being taken to ensure protection to Catholic missionaries and Catholic converts in Uganda?
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. J.W. LOWTHER, Cumberland, Penrith)Papers are about to be laid giving the information received by Her Majesty's Government since that already published in Africa No.4, 1892. It is understood that the Imperial British East Africa Company have sent instructions for all their officers now in Uganda to withdraw on the 31st of December next. It appears from letters from Protestant Missionaries, dated up to the 3rd of May, that Captain Lugard has consented to a division of territory by which the armed French Catholics shall stay in Buddu, while in Uganda all religions shall be free. A mail has just reached this country containing further Reports from Captain Lugard to the British East Africa Company, but they have not yet been received at the Foreign Office, and it is therefore not proposed to delay the issue of the Blue Book until they are received.