§ MR. CROSFIELD (Lincoln)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been called to a statement made by Major E. R. Owen, in which he states that the difficulties with Kaba Rega were primarily due to his refusal to provide food 907 for the forts in North Uganda, or to trade with the British or the Buganda; whether Major E. R. Owen was drawing pay from Imperial funds whilst engaged in this expedition; and whether be was authorised to force an unwilling chief to support a foreign army, and to engage in trade against his will?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir E. GREY,) Northumberland, BerwickMajor Owen was in receipt of pay from Imperial funds, but, as I have previously explained, the cause of the expedition, as reported to us by Colonel Colvile, was the aggressive attitude of Kaba Rega himself.