§ SIR E. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT (Sheffield, Ecclesall)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Government of the Transvaal have given up the claim to commandeer British residents in the Transvaal for food and supplies?
§ MR. S. BUXTONAs regards the levying of contributions in money or goods, British subjects are now in the same position as all other residents in the Transvaal. Like burghers of the Republic and other foreign subjects they are alike liable to the ordinary war contribution, but to that only.
§ SIR E. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTIs the hon. Gentleman in a position to say whether it is a fact that the British subjects recently commandeered and imprisoned were turned adrift by the Boer authorities in the open trek 200 miles from their homes?
§ MR. S. BUXTONI have no information to that effect.