HC Deb 07 August 1882 vol 273 c966
SIR WILFRID LAWSON

asked the Secretary of State for War, whether the prisoners who were taken from Arabi Pasha's Army would be treated as rebels or as prisoners of war?

MR. CHILDERS

said, he had got no Notice of the Question; but he had no doubt they would be treated as prisoners of war.

SIR WILFRID LAWSON

asked the Prime Minister whether a declaration of war had been made against anybody?

MR. GLADSTONE

No.

MR. ARTHUR O'CONNOR

asked whether Arabi Pasha, if captured, would be treated as a rebel or as a prisoner of war?

[No answer was given.]

MR. BOURKE

said, as some of his Questions on military intervention in Egypt had not been answered, he would put them again on Thursday.