§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)To ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will name the Powers with whom the Foreign Office have recently been in communication in regard to the proposed establishment of a lighthouse on Cape Guardafui.
(Answered by Lord Cranborne.) We have been in communication with the Italian Government, who exercise a protectorate over the country in which the cape is situated. The Italian Government are in principle favourable to the establishment of this lighthouse. The companies having lines passing through the Gulf of Aden are not agreed as to the advisability of the proposal, and no agreement has been arrived at as to terms.