44. Sir M. Sueter asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether the details of the apparaťus that makes the detonators of ťhe magnetic mines active, can now be disclosed?
§ Mr. ShakespeareI think it would be better not to make public at the present time the technical details of our knowledge of these mines.
§ Mr. ThorneIs it not the job of the Admiralty to find out how the mines get there?