§ MR. DILLON (Mayo, E.)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether any general regulation with reference to the shooting of pigeons has been issued by the General in command of the British troops in Egypt: and, if so, whether he can state the terms of the regulation, and the date on which it was issued.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) Lord Cromer in a telegram dated the 14th ultimo, addressed to my right hon. friend the Member for the Berwick-on-Tweed Division, stated that the order hitherto existing in Egypt has been that no pigeon-shooting was to take place without the consent of the Omdeh of the village, and that, since the Denshawai incident, the General Officer Commanding in Egypt was about to issue orders forbidding the shooting of pigeons in the future, but I am not aware of the terms of the order or the date of its issue.