MILITARY STORES FOR BRITISH EAST AFRICA.

HC Deb 01 April 1898 vol 55 cc1651-2

COLONEL J. M. DENNY (Kilmarnock Burghs)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the military stores required by the East African Protectorate are despatched by British or German steamers?

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. G. N. CURZON,) Lancashire, S.W., Southport

None of the stores, military or otherwise, required for the Uganda Railway, Uganda Protectorate, or East Africa Protectorate, have been shipped in German or in foreign steamers. The whole have been conveyed in British vessels.