§ EARL PERCY (Kensington, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether the order that the soldiers who were sent into Ladysmith under the Geneva Convention are not entitled to the Ladysmith Clasp applies to the men and officers of the Irish Fusiliers, Dublins, and other regiments who fought at Talana Hill, and, being wounded or forced to surrender, were sent into the town under the Geneva Convention, or whether, in view of their action during the retreat And of the dangers they encountered while 892 at the Hospital at Intombi, he will consider the advisability of exempting them from the operation of this order.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Lord STANLEY, Lancashire, Westhoughton)The "Defence of Ladysmith" clasp can only be given to those troops who helped to defend Ladysmith, and cannot be extended to men who were made non-combatants under the Geneva Convention.