§ MR. MACLEANI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, with regard to the instructions given by him to Sir Frederick Carrington, on 25th April, that the additional troops from England will be landed at Cape Town, and forming, as they do, part of the regular garrison of the station, it is not expected that their services will be required at the front; but that, if it should be found necessary, he would be at liberty to apply for them to the High Commissioner; that all proceedings are to be reported to and instructions sought from Her Majesty's High Commissioner, whether the conditions thus imposed left Sir Frederick free to employ at once any Imperial resources, either in men or money, that might be needed to stamp 1450 out the rebellion in Rhodesia; and, whether the Colonial Secretary's telegram of 22nd June, asking if more troops were wanted, was the first intimation conveyed to Sir Frederick Carrington that the Imperial Government was prepared to give him any help he required?
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINThe hon. Member has apparently drawn a mistaken inference from the information at his command. When Sir Frederick Carrington was in London on his way to South Africa, and again at Cape Town, he was taken fully into confidence and made aware that the policy of Her Majesty's Government was to supply at once whatever forces the authorities on the spot might ask for.