§ MR. TALBOT (Oxford University)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether he will lay upon the Table a statement of the number of chaplains attached to the forces in South; Africa, specifying the religious denominations to which such chaplains belong.
§ *MR. WYNDHAMThe War Office has sent to South Africa, or given direct authority for employing, forty-nine Church of England chaplains, nine Church of Scotland and other Presbyterians, twenty- two Roman Catholics, and five Wesleyans. These are net figures, not including those who have died or been invalided. Besides these, the Commander-in-Chief in South Africa has had a free hand to employ colonial clergy, and large numbers of all denominations mentioned are 1456 known to have been employed, but no returns of their numbers or denominations have been sent to the War Office.