§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War, in view of the fact that no information has been sought or received by the War Office since the 22nd December last in regard to Major Mackenzie, of the Seaforth Highlanders, will further steps be taken to ascertain if this officer is still alive, and the number and names of Highlanders buried by the Boers without identification after the battle of Magersfontein.
§ * MR. WYNDHAMEndeavours have been made to obtain information in regard to Major Mackenzie, and information has at length been received from Pretoria that he is not a prisoner there, and that the Transvaal Government is trying to find out whether he was killed and buried on the field of battle. It would further appear that the enemy secured the identity tickets only of their prisoners, and not of the dead Highlanders who were buried on the spot, and I am afraid that it must be assumed that those of the men reported missing who have not since been accounted for were killed and buried there.