§ MR. SOAMES (Norfolk, S.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it is the fact that the gauge being used for the Uganda Railway is different from that of the Nile Valley Railway; and, if so, whether Her Majesty's Government will take steps to have the gauge of the Uganda Railway made similar to that of the Nile Valley Railway?
§ MR. BRODRICKThe gauge of the Uganda Railway is one metre different from either of the gauges used on the railways in the Nile Valley; 260 miles of the Uganda Railway are already laid, and it would not be possible to assimilate the gauge of the railway with either of those of the Nile Valley.