Lieut.-Colonel MALONEasked the Prime Minister whether a ship making for Narva or any other ice-free port in Soviet Russia with cargo consigned to Russian Soviet subjects or authorities would be allowed to pass freely, or would be stopped or interfered with by His Majesty's ships in the Baltic?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe order for His Majesty's ships to turn back ships bound for Soviet Russian ports has not been formally cancelled; but, as I have already explained, the formation of ice renders it inoperative. The hon. Member is under a misapprehension in supposing that Narva is an ice-free port, and, moreover, I was not aware that it was in Bolshevik occupation.