§ 20. Major M'MICKINGasked the Minister of Munitions whether, in view of the fact that the families of many men who are employed on munitions work in Dumfriesshire reside in a stewartry of Kirkcudbright, he will endeavour to arrange for a workmen's train to be run night and morning between Dalbeattie and Gretna?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI understand that a workmen's train runs between Dumfries and Gretna, and that there would be no difficulty in arranging for a workmen's train to run from Dalbeattie to Dumfries; but Dalbeattie is forty-one miles from Gretna, and it seems hardly possible for workmen to travel that distance morning and night each day.
I should like to appeal to hon. and right hon. Members if they would be good enough not to put down questions which will indicate the locality of munitions factories. It is giving information which, I am sorry to say, has turned out on one or two occasions to be rather valuable to the enemy, and it has endangered one or two factories. I should be exceedingly obliged to hon. Members when they frame their questions if they will not frame them in such a way as to indicate the existence of munition factories at particular centres.