asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that on a plot of land situate at Ashfield Road, Leytonstone, there is embedded an unexploded shell or bomb which struck the plot on Whit-Sunday, 1918, during the last air raid on London; that it is now proposed to build upon the plot a mission hall; that there is considerable anxiety on the part of those proposing to build and attend the mission hall as to the danger of the shell or bomb exploding during the building operations or after the hall has been erected; that there is a doubt as to which Government Department is responsible for removing the shell or bomb; and whether he will cause an investigation and excavation to be made so that the shell or bomb may be removed and the building of the mission hall proceeded with without further anxiety?

Representations to the above effect have been made by those interested in the site, and I am in consultation with the War Office on the subject, and hope to be able to give a definite reply shortly.