§ MR. BELLAIRS (Lynn Regis)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether he will take steps to increase the utility of the annual Return of Fleets, Great Britain and Foreign Countries, by stating in the case of all 9.2-inch guns and above the year's model to which the design belongs, so as to facilitate reference to gunnery tables and to enable the gun-power of ships and especially of reconstructed ships, to be estimated.
§ (Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) The Admiralty consider it undesirable, on grounds of public interest, to issue any such statement with regard to British guns, and are not prepared to take any responsibility for similar information in respect of foreign navies.