§ MR. LABOUCHERE () NorthamptonTo ask the Secretary of State for War, in view of the fact that Holland alone subscribed during the late war 1,325,510,04 1/2 florins for the relief of Boer women and children, of which amount 498,161,04 1/2 florins were sent to South Africa either in money or goods in the later stages of the war, whether in estimating the contributions made by foreign subscribers for the relief of the concentration camps at £562 and 2,646 packages, this was at the rate of exchange of 12 florins and a trifle to the pound sterling; and whether, if this was the rate, he can explain what 150 became of the rest of the money and goods sent to South Africa by Holland and other foreign countries, and into whose hands it fell.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) The figures of £562 and 2,646 give the information at our disposal as to foreign contributions expended in concentration camps in the Transvaal. I have no information on the figures given in the question.