§ 41. Mr. Rileyasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been drawn to a Defence Regulation issued in December, 1943, by the Government of the Seychelles; whether he is aware that under this Regulation, No. 1, 1944, non-Europeans serving in the Seychelles Pioneer Companies below the rank of officer are prohibited in the town of Mahé from entering any hotel, restaurant, bar or tobacco shop; that the military and civil police are authorised to enter these places of refreshment and to search, arrest and take into custody these Seychelles Pioneer troops; and can he state the grounds for this discrimination between European and non-European serving men.
§ Colonel StanleyI have no information on this matter but I am making inquiries.