§ SIR HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that the Germans have established a dynamite depot in the harbour of Alderney and ship it thence on to German ships, and in such case if the local authorities have sufficient powers to make regulations for the protection of Her Majesty's subjects?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYI am informed that a German company is allowed to use the outer harbour at Braye, in the Island of Alderney, for the transhipment of explosives, under an agreement entered into between the company and the Office of Woods with the concurrence of the Admiralty and War Office. There is nothing in the nature of a dynamite dept, as the agreement expressly provides that no explosives shall be landed. As regards the latter part of the Question, I may say that the agreement contains stringent regulations as to the places where the ships are to be moored am I the precautions to be observed.