HC Deb 11 April 1905 vol 144 c1263
MR. CATHCART WASON (Orkney and Shetland)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies if the punitive expedition against the Nandi, said to be necessary by the Zionist Commission, will be undertaken at the cost of the Zionists; if his sanction will be necessary for such an expedition; and, if so, before granting it, will he cause the strictest independent inquiry as to the position of this tribe to be made.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. LYTTELTON, Warwick and Leamington)

I have received no communication from the Zionist Commission on the subject of an expedition against the Nandi. No such expedition would be permitted without my sanction and without cogent proofs furnished by His Majesty's Commissioner for the East Africa Protectorate that it was necessary.