26. Mr. JOHNSTON furtherasked if Colonel Sir Edgar Bernard, until recently financial secretary to the Sudan Government, was sent to this country to negotiate with the Treasury additional guarantees to the £6,000,000 already sanctioned for the Makwar dam scheme on the Blue Nile; if the Treasury declined to agree to the proposals made; and if, as a result of the failure of these negotiations, any pressure was brought to bear upon Colonel Bernard to tender his resignation?
§ Mr. McNEILLThe reply to the first part of the question is in the affirmative, and to the second in the negative. The last part, therefore, does not arise.