§ SIR THOMAS ESMONDE (Wexford, N.)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office if he will lay upon the Table the Minutes in the Public Paper, War Office, File No.74705/4, dated respectively 17th and 20th April, 1899; also the complete set of Minutes in the War Office, File 74706/15; and the Minutes and Statement in the War Office, File 74706/16,with which the then Secretary of State for War, on 28th March, 1900, expressed his concurrence.
LORD STANLEYThese Papers are strictly confidential, and I cannot consent to lay them on the Table. Their contents were improperly made public.