§ 43. Sir J. HARMOOD-BANNERasked the Secretary of State for War if any report has been received from Egypt of sending troops at five in the morning in open iron cattle-trucks, arriving at Luxor at four in the afternoon, and were all carted off in stretchers to hospital, of the death of forty men and sending 150 men to hospital in consequence of the non-arrival of the water-carts in the desert near Suez, and of the punishment of Australian troops in Egypt by making them undertake a forced march in the extreme heat, where by five died and 100 went to hospital?
§ Mr. FORSTERNo, Sir. No report has been received of any such incidents as those mentioned in the question, but inquiries shall be made.