§ MR. MANDEVILLE (Tipperary, S.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether a private soldier of Colonel Blake's Irish Brigade (in the service of the Transvaal Republic), having been taken prisoner of war, was killed at 1225 Ladysmith by one of the British garrison there, who, finding him wounded, disarmed, and under arrest, stabbed him to death with a bayonet; and in view of the fact that several thousands of British soldiers are now in safe custody as prisoners of war in Transvaal territory, what steps, if any, will the War Office take towards investigating this alleged offence, and punishing its author.
* MR. J. POWELL-WILLIAMS (for Mr. WYNDHAM)No information has been received of any such occurrence. If the hon. Member will give me the name of the person or newspaper responsible for the statement, with the date, I will make inquiry, if those particulars do not of themselves enable me to give him an answer.