§ SIR HENRY HOWORTH (Salford, S.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he would explain to the House how Captain Dunning, D.S.O., the Assistant Administrator of Uganda, was killed in Unyoro; whether there has been any fighting there, and what is the last news from the now protectorate; what amount has been spent in transport between Mombasa and Uganda; and whether 631 caravans can proceed to the Uganda from the Coast, and vice versa?
§ SIR E. GREYI regret to say that a telegram has been received, stating that Captain Dunning died from the effects of wounds received in Unyoro. We shall not receive any further explanation till the despatches arrive. I must ask the hon. Member to give me rather more time in which to answer the other parts of the question.
§ *SIR CHARLES DILKEwished to ask whether, as the Government had repeatedly called the attention (as was shown by the blue books circulated on Saturday) of the authorities in Uganda to this renewed fighting in Unyoro, they would again point out that these incidents did not command their assent?
§ SIR E. GREYsaid, that the cause of the fighting was the same as before, namely, the inplacable hostility of a chieftain.
§ *SIR C. DILKEasked whether the hon. Member would refer the authorities to Lord Kimberley's last two despatches on this subject to the administration of Uganda, and repeat the same caution?
§ SIR E. GREYI am not aware that there is any necessity for repeating the caution, and I do not know that the instructions have been infringed.