§ MR. DAVITTI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether Dervish prisoners taken at the Battle of Atbara, have been impressed into the Anglo-Egyptian service, and are to take part in the campaign against the Khalifa and Khartoum?
MR. POWELL WILLIAMSSeveral hundreds of the prisoners taken at the battle of Atbara have joined the Egyptian service, They were not impressed into it, but enlisted voluntarily, having in many cases friends and blood relations in that service whom they were anxious to join. The Baggara prisoners have not been enlisted, but have been employed upon the railway works.
§ MR. DAVITTIs it the fact or not that these prisoners have been impressed into the Anglo-Egyptian service?
§ MR. W. REDMOND (Clare, E.)May I ask the honourable Gentleman how the prisoner, the chief Mahmud, is now being treated, and what is to be done with him?
§ MR. SPEAKEROrder, order! The honourable Member had better give notice of that Question.
§ MR. W. REDMONDI will put it again on Monday.