§ SIR SAMUEL SCOTTTo ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether Sir William Butler has been sent out to South Africa on a mission by any department of the Government other than the War Office, or under the auspices of the Government; and, if so, whether he will state the nature of that mission.
(Answered by Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman.) No mission whatever has been confided to Sir William Butler by His Majesty's Government.