§ Brigadier-General CROFTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Shipping Controller whether the balance of 169 steel steamers which were contracted for in the United States in 1917, and which have since been requisitioned by the American Government, will revert to the British Government after they are released by the American Government for requisition, or does the requisition release the Shipping Controller from his contracts for those ships of faulty design?
Colonel WILSONThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative, and the Shipping Controller is accordingly relieved of all further liability. I must not, however, be taken as accepting the implication contained in the last part of the question.