§ MR. FLAVINTo ask the Secretary of State for War, whether he will state what steps have been taken to test the accuracy of the Official Minutes in the War Office Files Nos. 74705 and 74706, dated respectively 17th and 20th April 1899 and 17th March 1900; and whether the money involved, of which the three established Civil Service clerks concerned were deprived, as stated on 16th Juno 1904, can now be publicly inquired into.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) The cases of these three clerks have been fully considered by my predecessors, and I am not prepared to re-open them.