§ 37. Captain CUNNINGHAM- REIDasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if His Majesty's Government was consulted by the Government of Kenya before the conclusion in September last of the agreement between Kenya and Abyssinia; if he is satisfied that this agreement will prevent armed frontier raids from Abyssinia; and if it has been made clear to the representative of Abyssinia in this country that the maintenance of law and order in Kenya is the concern of His Majesty's Government as well as of the Government of Kenya?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERNegotiations for this agreement were initiated, with the concurrence of His Majesty's Government, at a meeting on the frontier between local representatives of the Governments of Kenya and Ethiopia. The later stages were conducted by His Majesty's representative in Addis Ababa, who, after consultation with His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, finally ratified the agreement in an exchange of notes. One section of the agreement contains a specific undertaking by the Government of Ethiopia to punish the Gelubba tribe who had instigated the trouble, to disarm them in the future and to post a number of guards so that no further raids would occur. As regards the last part of the question, no communication on the subject has been made to the Ethiopian Minister in London.