§ 16. Mr. RICHARD LAMBERTasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he received on or about 16th December, 1917, information that some thousands of Montenegrins capable of bearing arms were, owing to political intrigue, interned in various places on the Continent; that these men, some of them veteran soldiers, are eager to enrol themselves as a Montenegrin corps under their national flag and fight under the command of English or French officers; and whether he has taken action in order to secure the help of these fighting men or whether he will appoint a commissioner, preferably a military officer, to visit these men and make a Report upon their condition?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONStatements of the nature indicated by my hon. Friend were received on the 17th December, but on further investigation it appeared that they were exaggerated, particularly as regards numbers. The internment of any individual Montenegrins on the Continent, and arrangements affecting Montenegrin subjects there, are the concern of other Allied Powers, and not of the British military authorities.