§ GENERAL RUSSELL (Cheltenham)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether he has any information to the effect that the 800 British prisoners of Yeomanry and Sherwood Foresters recently sent across the Natal Frontier were in a starving condition, and had been obliged to replace their own clothes by the cast-off garments of the Boers; and, if so, whether the Government have now in store in Natal ample supplies of warm and other clothing sufficiently to equip these returned prisoners.
§ *MR. WYNDHAMWe have no information beyond what has been stated in the press. There are ample stores in Natal to reclothe these men.