§ MR. MACDONA (Southwark, Rotherhithe)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, to whom I have given private notice of the question, whether he knows anything of the statements made in a telegram in The Standard, dated "Johannesburg, Monday," to the effect that General Joubert has impressed a number of British subjects at Zout-spansberg into the Boer Army, and that among the conscripts is an English journalist who had given offence by his criticism of the Boer campaign?
§ MR. S. BUXTONI know nothing of this telegram, and as the South African Republic has released those British subjects whom it had impressed, by reason of the Convention we hope to conclude with the Republic, if any others have been impressed it must have been done under a misapprehension, and no doubt they will be released also.
§ MR. MACDONAWill Her Majesty's Government take measures to secure the safety of British subjects?
§ MR. S. BUXTONThey have been doing so.