HC Deb 10 February 1880 vol 250 c385
COLONEL STANLEY,

referring to a report of the answer which he gave last night to the Question of the hon. Baronet the Member for Chelsea (Sir Charles W. Dilke), as to whether the rules concerning newspaper correspondents with British Armies in the field, published during the Recess, were to be looked upon as being still in force, explained that what he believed he said—and certainly what he intended to say—was, with regard to a Memorandum drawn up by some officers after the Russo-Turkish War as to the duties of correspondents in the field, that that Memorandum was provisionally approved by the Commander-in-Chief and by himself to the extent that a certain number of copies should be printed, but not issued. He also said that no rules had been published by his authority, either in relation to the Kaffir—not the Afghan—or the Zulu War.