§ Mr. NEWBOLDasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that the seizure by the French Government of the towns in Baden has put it in possession of dyeworks and chemical factories capable at the shortest notice of producing great quantities of poison and other gases of military utility, he will say whether His Majesty's Government is taking any precautionary steps in the matter?
Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS:The hon. Member is under a misapprehension. No facilities for producing poison gas exist in the towns referred to.