§ MR. NORMANTo ask the Secretary of State for War, whether he is aware that after the first purchase of Hungarian horses, General Truman was visited by a Hungarian gentleman well qualified to give advice upon the subject, and advised to purchase from a different source, and that the same gentleman subsequently tendered similar advice at personal interviews to Lord Roberts and the Quartermaster General, by which latter official it was reported to the Secretary of State for War; and will he say why this advice was ignored.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) Will the honourable Member kindly give me the name of the Hungarian gentleman, and the dates of his interviews with the officers mentioned? I have received such a large number of suggestions that it is necessary to obtain the information I now ask from the hon. Member to trace the specific case to which he refers.