§ 30. Sir HERBERT NIELDasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has yet received from the British Residency at Cairo particulars concerning the complaint of the treatment of certain British officials in the service of the Egyptian State Railways in telegraphs and telephones; whether he is now in a position to make a statement on the matter and to lay the papers relating thereto upon the Table of this House; whether any communication has been made to the Foreign Office by Mr. Clark Kerr, adviser to the British Residency at Cairo, who has recently arrived in London, on the subject; and, if so, what steps the Foreign Office propose to take to insure that justice shall be done?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe reply to the first two parts of the question is in the negative. Until I have received Lord Allenby's report, which he has been asked by telegraph to expedite, I am unable to reply to the last part.
§ Sir H. NIELDThe question has been put down for many weeks, and these unfortunate officials are now in a most unpleasant position.
§ The PRIME MINISTERYes, but I have said that I have called for a report. I have asked that that report should be expedited, and it has not yet reached me.