§ SIR HENRY HAVELOCKasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether it is a fact that Colonel Lennox, of the Royal Engineers, is now at Rustchuk on the Danube, at the head-quarters of the Turkish Army, together with two younger British officers on full pay; whether it is the case, as stated by a correspondent of a London paper, writing from Rustchuk on the 1st instant, that these British officers "daily visit the Turkish fortifications; that they assist the Turkish commander by their advice; and that, with their help, a sharp resistance may be anticipated;" and, whether any instructions have been or, if not, will be issued to these officers to confine themselves to that strict neutrality enjoined in Her Majesty's recent Proclamation, neither giving advice nor expressing any professional opinion to the Turks on the struggle now in progress?
MR. GATHORNE HARDYColonel Lennox, of the Royal Engineers, is Military Attaché at Constantinople, and at the time of the declaration of war he was in the Danubian Provinces in company with another young officer. He has since that time, as Military Attaché, received permission to attend at the head-quarters of the Turkish Army. He knows perfectly well the duties which belong to his position, and he himself, as he has said, presumed he was on the general footing of Military Attachés—on the same footing as General Walker, who was attached to the German Army during the Franco-German War. Therefore, it is unnecessary to 622 send any special instructions to Colonel Lennox.