§ Mr. CAPEasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state what is the total cost per annum of King's messengers, and whether these messengers take with them documents of such importance that they could not be entrusted to the ordinary post?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODIt is difficult to estimate what the cost of messengers' journeys in future will be, as during the War and until recently many of them have been performed by naval and military officers, and the cost did not fall on Foreign Office funds; it is, however, anticipated that the total annual cost will be about £40,000. The answer to the second part of the question is in the affirmative.