§ MR. C. P. SCOTT (Lancashire, Leigh)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, whether armed natives have been used in South Africa for scouting and for holding blockhouses; and, if so, whether such use is to be understood as coming under the description of self-protection.
§ MR. BRODRICKNo, Sir. Armed natives are not so employed, but they have been utilised as watchmen in isolated places between blockhouses on railways, and have been armed for their own protection, as the Boers had shot some of them in cold blood.