§ Wing-Commander R. Robinsonasked the Minister of War Transport what is the reason for limiting the number of passengers on the "Queen Elizabeth," the "Queen Mary" and the "Aquitania" on Eastbound trips from the United States to the United Kingdom to a few hundred, while the same ships carry nearly 15,000 returning troops on the Westbound passage; and whether, in view of the long waiting list of passengers in the United States and the dollar exchange which can be obtained for these eastbound passages and from American citizens visiting this country, he will arrange to make more passages available on these ships.
§ Mr. BarnesAccommodation for large numbers of troops can be provided in a ship only by removing practically all the accommodation suitable for the carriage of civilian passengers, particularly women and children. This very severely limits the number of civilians which can be carried Eastbound in the troopers on the North Atlantic at this moment.