§ MR. CHARLES HOBHOUSEI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many officers have been sent out in the last three months upon special service to Somaliland; whether any military operations are taking place in that country, and what force it will be necessary to maintain in the Protectorate in order to preserve peace; whether he can state what number of officers will be required in future to administer the Government there.
§ * EARL PERCYNo special service officers have been sent out since the termination of the war, and no military operations are now taking place. Two 788 Indian regiments and two companies of mounted infantry will remain as a temporary garrison pending the reorganisation of the local forces. The normal European staff of the Protectorate consists of eleven civil and ten military officers.
§ * MR. CHARLES HOBHOUSEWhat was the date of the termination of the war?
§ * EARL PERCYsaid he could not give the exact date when military operations were supposed to have terminated. His Answer referred to the period when the Foreign Office took over the control.