HC Deb 02 February 1900 vol 78 cc438-9
MR. SWIFT MACNEILL

. I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War when was the defeat of Lord Methuen's forces at Magersfontein, which was not communicated to the general public till the morning of Wednesday the 13th December, first known at the War Office.

* MR. WYNDHAM

The news reached the War Office early on Wednesday morning.