§ 10. Colonel WEDGWOODasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is taking any steps to ensure that the pipe line, if such is laid, to the Mesopotamian oil-fields shall debouch at Haifa and be under British control?
§ The UNDERSECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Mr. Ormsby-Gore)I have been asked to reply. I can assure the right hon. and gallant Member that 2216 the importance of this question is fully appreciated, but I am not in a position to add anything to what my right hon. Friend has already stated in the House on the subject.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODAre we to understand that the telegram in the "Times" to-day, which states that it has been definitely decided to debouch the pipe-line at Haifa, is without any foundation in fact?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GORENo, it is not correct to assume that there is no foundation for it, but we have not heard officially as to the statements which that telegram covers.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODAre we to understand that the British Admiralty is taking a hand in the question, or merely the Colonial Office?
§ Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYIs it the fact that the Board of Admiralty are now all ardent Zionists? They ought to be.