§ 15 Mr. JOWETTasked the Under-Secretary of State for War, (1) concerning an absentee under the Military Service Act, 1916, named Alan J. M'Dougall, who was handed over to the military authorities on 25th April last, and who afterwards, at Scotland Yard, refused to sign attestation papers, and was, notwithstanding this refusal, passed for general service and sent to the depot of the 4/3rd London Regiment, where he was mishandled by some soldiers, and who afterwards forcibly put khaki clothes on him; if he will say where Alan M'Dougall is now; whether he is awaiting or has undergone court-martial; if not, what has been done with him; (2) if he is aware that Norman Gaudie, a conscientious objector, of Sunderland, who was fined £2 at Jarrow 1333 Police Court and handed over to the military authorities on 19th April, and was subsequently taken to Newcastle Barracks, and from there to Richmond Castle, has been subjected to severe treatment, his own clothes torn off and khaki clothes forced on him, and afterwards put in irons on account of his resistance and handcuffed; whether he will cause inquiries to be made into the conduct of the military authorities concerned with the object of preventing the continuance of this method of treating conscientious objectors; and (3) what has become of W. Hammond, a conscientious objector, who was arrested on 17th April last, tried on 18th April, fined £2 and handed over to the military authorities, was afterwards taken to the Mill Hill Barracks and from there to Northampton, where he was put in the guard room for seven days, was on hunger strike and without food for five days, as the result of which he had to be removed to a military hospital, and was due to be tried by court-martial on 2nd May?
§ Mr. TENNANTAs my hon. Friend has not seen his way to respond to the appeal I made last week, a report has been called for on the matters alleged in this and in the next two questions.