Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Is it not hard lines on an officer when he is reflected on in this way, involving a censure, that he cannot get a court-martial?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: 5. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty what is the cause of the delay in the promised publication of the dispatches in regard to the bombardment of the Dardanelles forts in1915, and whether they will include the telegram from the admiral commanding which the First Lord of the Admiralty described as submitting a plan which he approved of by telegram?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: 6. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether a. Memorandum was received by the Board of Admiralty from Admiral Cradock in regard to his instructions and force prior to the battle of Coronel; and, in view of the charges which have been made against his memory, whether the Board will publish this Memorandum?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Was any protest received from Admiral Cradock in regard to the mission on which he was sent and the strength of the forces under his command?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: 7. asked whether any court-martial was held to inquire into the circumstances under which a single submarine sunk the patrol squadron consisting of the "Cressy," "Hogue," and "Aboukir"; whether the three ships were stationed by order of the Board of Admiralty as a whole or by the orders of particular individuals; and, if so, who was made responsible for the great loss of life needlessly entailed?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Was there a Court of Inquiry held?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Will my right hon. Friend, in that particular case, give the findings of the Court of Inquiry, in view of the fact that the Court of Inquiry I understand blamed the Admiralty?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Will the right hon. Gentleman answer the last part of the question—who was made responsible for the great loss of life entailed?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Will he take into consideration that the Privy Council is a much older body than the Cabinet; in fact, that the Cabinet is a usurper of the Privy Council's functions?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: 89. asked the- President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that inquiries into the losses of merchants ships are held in public, but the inquiry into the loss of the "Lusitania" was held in secret because of the War; and whether he will now release to the Press the records of this inquiry as a matter of public interest in the British Empire and the United States?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Will the hon. Gentleman take care to correct the description of Enver Pasha by the Secretary of State for War as the Garibaldi of the Turkish Revolution?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: 56. asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the registration of the United Baltic Company with a private capital of £2,000,000 on 20th May to carry on a multiplicity of undertakings by land and sea; whether he is aware that the British directors are the Right Hon. Leverton Harris and two representatives of Andrew Weir and Company, and the remaining directors are Hans...
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the bank in question were the agents of the Deutsche Bank, and does he derive his information from those best qualified to know, whose business it was to know, like the naval and military attaches at Copenhagen during the War?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Do these figures include any guaranteed loans for which this country is responsible?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Would the right hon. Gentleman be able to answer a question as to the extent of the loans from the United States to other nations of which we have guaranteed the payment, if any?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: What is the date of the circular?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Surely the view has never been put forward by a Minister that they should cut themselves off from their trade unions?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Will it be incumbent on any of us to discuss Bolshevik atrocities on the Army Estimates? If so, some of us might like to do so.
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Would it not be quite possible to have fully-manned ships stationed on the West Coast of Ireland instead of two half-manned destroyers -stationed at Queenstown?
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: Can you send the ships out?