§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether a fire occurred at the Gun Wharf, Portsmouth, on the 2nd January, 1907, causing damage to the extent of a quarter of a million sterling, the camp equipment of an Army Corps being destroyed; and whether the building was owned by the Admiralty.
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. MCKENNA,) Monmouthshire, N.In regard to the first part of the Question, I must refer the hon. Member to my right hon. friend the Secretary of State for War. The Answer to the latter part of the Question is in the negative.