§ MR. CHARLES HOBHOUSE (Bristol, E.)To ask the Secretary of State for India, if he can say how long the additional troops will be detained at Aden; whether the frontier question is now settled; and whether, seeing that the battalion of Dublin Fusiliers now on the 1789 frontier has had nineteen years' continuous foreign service, steps can be taken to bring it home.
(Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) The delimitation of the Aden frontier, though progress has been made, is not yet settled, and I cannot say when it will be possible to withdraw the additional troops. In any case the passage through the Red Sea in the hot weather would be a risky undertaking for British troops.