§ Mr. SNOWDENasked the Under-Secretary of State to the Air Ministry if he will say by whose authority Captain Boothby was sent up in an aeroplane on Sunday, 21st July, on West Common, Lincoln, during a demonstration of discharged men, when he flew over the meeting at a low height, making the holding of the meeting impossible; whether Captain Boothby is a member of the Comrades of the Great War Association; and what steps it is proposed to take to prevent men of the Air Service from using Government aeroplanes and Government petrol to break up meetings of discharged soldiers?
§ Major BAIRDThe records of the Royal Air Force do not show the name of Captain Boothby. I am informed that an officer flying at Lincoln on the date in question was compelled by the direction of the wind and in order to effect a landing to fly very low over West Common, where a demonstration was being held. There was no intention of interfering with the meeting.