§ MAJOR DALBIACOn behalf of the honourable Member for the Egremont Division of Cumberland, I beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty, in view of the fact that most of the best coal used in Her Majesty's Navy is obtained from Cardiff, whether his attention has been called to the fact that the Bristol Channel is, for all practical purposes, absolutely undefended; and what steps he proposes to take to remedy this state of affairs?
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe revised scheme for the armament of our coast defences provides a certain number of guns of the latest type for the defence of the Bristol Channel, but I am unable to tell the honourable Member how soon they will be supplied.