§ MR. LABOUCHEREI beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he can say if the Major Annesley who is stated in the evidence submitted to the Committee of the House on the Hungarian Horse Contracts as being connected with a South African Company engaged in purchasing horses at Cyrebadka, at the time when the Lewison Contract was being carried out there, was employed in Hungary in any, capacity by the War Office; and, if so, in what capacity. And whether he can throw any light upon the nature of this South African Company, or upon what became of the horses imported from Hungary into South Africa by this Company.
In putting the Question the hon. Member said it seemed that he could not write the name of this officer so that it might appear correctly. It was Major Armstrong, not "Annesley. "
§ MR. BRODRICKI have no information whatever on the points raised in the Question. No such officer as Major Annesley was employed by the Remount Department.
§ MR. LABOUCHEREOf course not. But does the right hon. Gentleman know anything about Major Armstrong?
§ MR. BRODRICKNo, Sir; but that does not prove that a Major Armstrong may not be in existence.