§ 82. Mr. MACMASTERasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he can give a list of the names of British prisoners of war in Turkey and the place of their internment; and what are the opportunities for communicating with them and of dispatching letters and parcels to them?
§ Mr. TENNANTI deeply regret that the list of the names of the British prisoners of war in Turkey is so long that if I were to attempt to read it no further progress could be made to-day with the other important business before the House. 1205 I can, however, show the hon. Member a list. Most of the names have, I think, been published. The places at which the prisoners are interned are: Angora, Afion-Kara-Hisar Bozanti. There are also wounded in the hospitals at Constantinople and some in hospital at Smyrna. I understand that the majority, if not the whole, of the prisoners captured by the Turks in Mesopotamia are at Mossoul. Letters and parcels can be dispatched to prisoners and are sent through the Swiss post office. It is believed that the majority of them reach the addressees.