CAPTAIN PHILLPOTTSI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if it is correct that instead of the customary annual naval manœuvres there will be no mobilisation this year, and that a series of technical exercises by the Channel, Coastguard Reserve, and Particular Service Squadrons will be substituted; and, if so, why?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTYI do not know what reports my hon. Friend may have seen. No plan of either the one kind or the other had yet been considered by me.
§ CAPTAIN DONELANWill the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that Queenstown Harbour is admirably adapted for mobilisation?
§ [No answer was given.]