§ MR. WEIR (ROSS and Cromarty)To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign-Affairs if he can state whether the notable who gave the British officers permission to shoot pigeons in the Tantah district of Egypt gave the villagers any intimation that this shooting of tame pigeons would take place.
(Answered by Secretary Sir Edward Grey.) The Answer to this Question is the same as that to the hon. Member's Question No. 2 of to-day.†
§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the pigeons in the district of Tantah, Egypt, which were shot at by the British officers whilst on the march from Cairo to Alexandria, were tame pigeons, the property of the villagers; and will he state why these officers visited
… See next Question.343 this village in the neighbourhood of Tantah for the purpose indicated, seeing that they had no knowledge or habits of the fellaheen.(Answered by Secretary Sir Edward Grey.) I am unable to make any statement as to the facts of the case. They cannot be accurately known until the trial of the accused persons, which will be held in public, has been brought to a conclusion. (This Answer applies also to the hon. Member's Question No. 1 of to-day.) †