Sir GILBERT PARKERI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a question of which I have given him private notice, whether his attention has been directed to the expulsion from Agadir of Mr. Alan Osier, special correspondent of the "Daily Express," and whether he can state on whose authority this was done and for what reasons?
The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. McKinnon Wood)I have received a telegram from the Legation at Tangier stating that the British Vice-Consul at Mogador had reported that the correspondents of the "Westminster Gazette" and the "Daily Express" had been expelled from Agadir by order of the Moorish Lieutenant-Governor. The apparent reason of the expulsion was that the correspondents refused to explain the reasons for their visit, and that they had brought no letters of recommendation to the local Moorish authorities. Representations on the subject are being addressed to the Governor by the Vice-Consul at Mogador. The captain of the German cruiser treated the correspondents courteously, and offered to remonstrate with the Lieutenant-Governor, but the offer was declined.
Captain FABERCan the right hon. Gentleman say whether those correspondents called on the Moorish Governor, and what reception they got?