Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons am ar 28 Gorffennaf 1925.
Mr Ernest Thurtle
, Shoreditch
asked the Secretary of State for War whether any kind of poison gas is being manufactured in this country for his Department?
Mr Worthington Evans
, Colchester
Gas is being manufactured only on a very small scale, for experimental purposes.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
