§ 77. Mr. GINNELLasked the Under-Secretary of State for War the grounds upon which the military authorities have prevented the issue of a permit to Mr. Bartle Daly, an Irish resident in the Argentine Republic, to return from Liverpool to that country in purusit of his normal business claiming that he is liable for military service here; whether that claim will now be withdrawn, compensation paid to Mr. Daly for the seven months' prevention of his business, and no further obstacle raised to his return; and whether any explanation has been offered to the Argentine Government of this interference with a business man vouched for by one of its Departments?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONInquiry has been made into the case, and it has been ascertained that Daly applied for a passport to proceed to Buenos Ayres and to return within a period of three months. In his application he did not suggest that he was ordinarily resident in Ireland or in the Argentine Republic, or that he was not ordinarily resident in Great Britain. The military authorities raised objection to the issue of the passport on the ground that Daly was liable to military service. In view of the suggestion now made that Daly is not ordinarily resident in Great Britain, inquiry is being made in the area of his present residence. I am not aware that any communication regarding him has been received by the War Office from the Argentine Government.