§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State 1436 for War whether the Vicomte de Villebois Mareuil has received from the War Office a refusal to his application for permission to take out to the Boers in South Africa an ambulance with its staff and accessories; and will he state in what instances, if any, have similar requests met with refusals; and, if so, what have been the reasons for such refusals.
LORD STANLEYThe reply to the first paragraph is in the affirmative. As regards the rest of the Question, similar requests have been received from foreign Red Cross Societies, and have been refused for the reasons named in the letter to the Vicomte de Villebois Mareuil which has been made public.