§ SiR JOHN ROLLESTON (Leicester)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Captain Harry Lambart, Kimberley Light Horse, late Commandant of Klerksdorp, Transvaal, was arrested and placed in solitary confinement, contrary to King's Regulations, and that his services were dispensed with from His Majesty's Army without a trial; will he explain why applications for the reason of this treatment have been ignored and applications for a reopening of his case refused; and whether, considering the services of this officer, for which he received the written thanks of Lord Roberts and other generals, he will order an inquiry, at which Captain Lambart can attend, to inquire into the charge of misappropriation of public money.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) The proceedings of Courts of inquiry on officers serving with Colonial corps have not been forwarded to the War Office. The only document bearing on this case is a short narration of the surrender of Klerksdorp with a marginal note to the effect that "Captain Lambart's services have been dispensed with—Pretoria, 5th October, 1900." As regards the charge of misappropriation of public money, no report on the subject has reached the War Office. Captain Lambart was given information to the above effect in January last. I can see no grounds for instituting the inquiry suggested in the Question.