HC Deb 29 March 1900 vol 81 c684
MR. SWIFT MACNEILL

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether the original communication, dated 4th January, sent home by Sir Redvers Buller, who was then in chief command of the Army in South Africa, from Lord Methuen, respecting the reverse at Magersfontein on the 10th and 11th December, will be published; and what is the reason for withholding from the public a communication with reference to a matter of such general interest.

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. WYNDHAM,) Dover

For the reasons which I stated in answer to the hon. Member on the 23rd,* it is intended not to publish this communication.