§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he can give any explanation of the fact that in General Buller's account of Pieter's Hill the Irish Fusiliers have not been mentioned among the assaulting battalions, although they lost heavily in the assault and were praised for their gallantry by eye witnesses of the action.
§ MR. BRODRICKNo, Sir. I must decline in this and in all other instances to explain why particular individuals or regiments have not been mentioned by a general in his despatches, and in so declining I must not be considered to be reflecting in any way on those to whom allusion is made.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLThe right hon. Gentleman will be asked again and again and again.