HC Deb 24 February 1903 vol 118 c669
SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he can inform the House what inquiries into surrenders in South Africa have been reopened otherwise than by the Royal Commission, and what officers who had been cashiered or placed on half-pay have been reinstated.

MR. BRODRICK

Some cases have been reconsidered, but in only one case has an officer been reinstated, when it was found that the Court which tried him had been illegally constituted.

*SIR CHARLES DILKE

Was that the Helvetia case?

MR. BRODRICK

No, Sir.

*SIR CHARLES DILKE

But has not the officer in that case been reinstated?

MR. BRODRICK

That case is under consideration.