§ 97. Mr. R. GWYNNEasked the Undersecretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the fact that many of the feeding cups sent by the Red Cross Society for use in Voluntary Aid Detachment hospitals are of German manufacture, and that attached to some of them is a label bearing the words "Krankenbecher, 665, weiss"; whether he is aware that this is the German for feeding cups, white; and whether he can take steps to see that money subscribed to the Red Cross does not go to Germany at the present time, directly or indirectly?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI have been in communication with the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John. On the assumption that these cups came from the society, they point out that at the beginning of the War, owing to the abnormal demand, they had to secure all available stocks of enamel ware. The stocks were bought from English firms, but as little or no enamel ware of this nature was made in England the original source of supply was no doubt in most cases foreign. The suggestion, however, that money subscribed to the British Red Cross is going to Germany is incorrect.
§ Mr. GWYNNEDoes the hon. Member suggest that we are still using the same cups which were used at the beginning of the War?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONYes.