§ MR. J. H. WHITLEY (Halifax)To ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been called to the arrest and imprisonment, of two English ladies in Switzerland; if he has caused inquiry to be made into the circumstances; and if he will seek from the Swiss Government compensation to the ladies for the treatment they have suffered.
(Answered by Viscount Cranborne.) The attention of His Majesty's Government has already been drawn to this case, and the Consul at Lausanne has been desired to furnish a full report. Only a brief statement of the facts has as yet been received, from which it would appear that the two English ladies met with very arbitrary treatment. It is desirable to await the fuller report called for before bringing the matter officially to the notice of the Swiss Government.