§ MR. PIRIEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that two British subjects, who have recently come to this country from Cape Colony with the full permission of the base commandant at Cape Town, were, on coining on board the ship "Persic," taken into the captain's cabin by a military officer and stripped naked, on the ground that they must be searched, and whether he will take steps to prevent any such treatment in the future of British subjects against whom there is no charge.
§ MR. BRODRICKI have no information as to the incident referred to in the Question.