§ Sir E. NICHOLLasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Shipping Controller if all passenger berths on the Peninsular and Oriental liners "Nore" and "Novara," lately sailing from Singapore, were requisitioned by the Government to carry home Germans, and if the passages already booked by the British women and children, some of whom were ill, were cancelled in favour of the German passengers; and, if so, whether he will make inquiries as to who is responsible for this preference for Germans against the British women and children of Singapore?
§ Colonel L. WILSONI regret that, in view of the urgent importance of providing transport for the prisoners whom it was desired to remove from China, there was no practicable alternative but to take up the whole of the space available on the two vessels named.