§ MR. J. A. WILLOX (Liverpool, Everton)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1) whether a party of Anarchists, having been sentenced to expulsion from Spain, were prohibited from landing in France, and are now on the voyage front Barcelona to Liverpool; (2) whether Her Majesty's Government are taking any steps to prevent the alleged deportation of Spanish Anarchists to the United Kingdom; and (3) what measures the Local Authorities at Liverpool can take to prevent the landing at that port of dangerous and destitute aliens, who, as in many previous instances, may, if landed, become a charge upon the local rates?
MR. GRZONHer Majesty's Government have received information that 28 persons suspected of Anarchist opinions, and sentenced to expulsion from Spain, have been embarked at; their desire for Liverpool in the Spanish vessel Isla de Luzon. It is understood that the French Government have protested against the deportation of Spanish Anarchists from Spain into France. On receiving information of this shipment, Tier Majesty's Government protested against it, and the Spanish Government have expressed their regret and have promised that no more shall be sent. There are no measures which the Local Authorities at Liverpool can take in the sense of the last paragraph.