§ 44. Mr. Channonasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will arrange for an independent inquiry to be held into the allegations, copies of which have been sent to him, that officials of his Department attempted to persuade private citizens to capture by force the Rough Towers fort at present in the possession of Mr. Roy Bates.
§ Mr. Reynolds:I inquired fully into the allegations which the hon. Gentleman put to me in his letter of 30th May; as I told him then, no such attempt was made by officials of this Department.