§ 9. Colonel HOWARD-BURYasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in the negotiations now in progress with Nahas Pasha, any steps are being taken to ensure the stategical security of the Sinai Peninsula and of the Sollum Province?
Mr. A. HENDERSONThe situation with regard to the Sollum Province is in no way affected by the present proposals. The stategical security of the Sinai Peninsula will in all probability be enhanced by the presence of British forces in the immediate vicinity of the Suez Canal.
§ Colonel HOWARD-BURYDoes the right hon. Gentleman mean that troops are to be stationed on the Sinai Peninsula; and is he aware that, for our interests in protecting the Canal, it is most important that we should have possession of the Sinai Peninsula?