§ MR. PICKERSGILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what was the outcome of the promise made by Lord Cromer in 1901, after the fracas near Cairo between British officers and the watchmen of Mr. Wilfrid Blunt, that he would consult the legal advisers of the Egyptian Government as to the suggested strengthening of the law of trespass in Egypt, so as to protect native cultivators from injury at the hands of Europeans; and whether anything has been done in the premises.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYLord Cromer consulted the legal advisers to the Egyptian Government on his return to Cairo in 1901, and they were of opinion that no change in the law was necessary or practicable. Nor is there reason to believe that cases of trespass by Europeans are more common than cases of trespass by natives.