§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he will now publish Lord Kitchener's letter to President Schalk Burger, forwarding to him the correspondence with the Netherlands Government and making the overtures to the Beers on which they based their proposals for peace; and will he say why has that letter been withheld from publication.
§ MR. BRODRICKThe terms in which the letter of Lord Kitchener referred to were couched were purely formal.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLIs not that the letter Lord Kitchener referred to in his letter to the right hon. Gentleman?
§ MR. BRODRICKThe communication was merely passed on in a formal manner.
§ MR. JOYCE (Limerick)If there is nothing to conceal, why keep it back!