Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: 6. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that great inconvenience is caused by the lack of accommodation at the Passport Office, causing a block on the pavement in Victoria Street and many hours of waiting for the public desiring to get passports; and whether he will make arrangements for those who go there merely to obtain an application form to enter and leave...
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: 2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will grant a Return showing the names of the officials attend- ing the Peace Conference, the offices they are filling, and the salaries which they are drawing?
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: Is the hon. Gentleman aware that of the ladies in Paris graded as typists there are said to be a large number with no experience whatever?
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: I agree, Sir.
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: 8. asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information that Russian officers who have been prisoners in Germany are being sent back to Russia, where they are collected in large batches and shot by the Bolsheviks?
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: 9. asked whether in the invitation to Russian Governments to attend a Conference at Prinkipo any condition was imposed as to the cessation of massacres?
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: Does the hon. Gentleman think that military action would cover these quite unconstitutional massacres?
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: Will the hon. Gentleman make representations that in future no such proposals should be put forward without expressly providing for cessation of massacres?
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: I beg to move, to leave out the words and may, if he thinks fit, ask any Member who has given noticed of an Amendment to give such explanation of the object of the Amendment as may enable him to form a judgment upon it, and to insert instead thereof the words but shall, before deciding not to select any Amendment, call on a Member who has given notice to rise in his plate and give an...
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: "In the course of the Debate" would not mean a public speech in the House.
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: By leave of the House, may I say that the suggestion of the right hon. Gentleman I goes some distance to meet it, but I would suggest, in order that the power might be freely exercised by the Chair, that the limit of ten minutes might still be retained otherwise a Member might make a long speech, and, sooner than face that, Mr. Speaker might hesitate to give him an opportunity of rising in...
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: Yes. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Amendment made: Leave out the word "ask," and insert instead thereof the words "called upon."—[Mr. Bonar Law.] Main Question, as amended, put, and agreed to. Ordered, That, in respect of any Motion or any Bill under consideration either in Committee of the Whole House or on Report, Mr. Speaker, or in Committee the Chairman of Ways and Means, and the...
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: Is there any evidence that the independent State of Abyssinia desire the interference of the League of Nations?
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: Could the right hon. Gentleman say the approximate number of men involved?
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: 8. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will give the number of general officers who have ceased to be employed since the beginning of demobilisation?
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: I think the House as a whole ought to have some control in this matter. Unless we get the information to-night, the only authority to judge as to the way in which this money is to be spent will be a Committee upstairs. I do not think that that is a satisfactory way of dealing with finance, nor could it have been contemplated when our procedure was framed which laid down that all these forms...
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: 1. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information that the Serbs are now attacking the Albanians in Ipek and Djakova; whether this district, although inhabited by a large Albanian majority, was allotted to Montenegro in 1913 but never occupied by that country; whether the Serbs have been warned to desist from their attack; and whether the ultimate possession...
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: 102. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether the price of binder-twine has greatly risen since the fixed price of 115s. was removed; and whether, in view of the difficulty thus caused to agriculturists, he will take steps to have the price again controlled?
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: Can the hon. Gentleman say what prospect there is of this Committee being appointed, and whether steps can be taken to ensure that when the evidence, which is of great public interest, is taken, it will be heard in public?
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness: 42. asked the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the large number of men with long service as non-commissioned officers in the Regular Army who have accepted permanent commissions during the War, they may be put on the same basis as those promoted to commissions from first-class warrant rank as regards retired pay, etc., and allowed to reckon their service in the ranks year for...