29. Lieutenant-Colonel MALONEasked the Secretary of State for War whether several thousand German troops, awaiting repatriation from the Black Sea regions, are employed fighting for the Allies against the Bolshevik forces; if so, whether they are receiving any remuneration for their services as a charge on the public funds; and whether it is intended to replace them by Allied troops in the near future?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. On the contrary, a number of the Germans are reported to have been incorporated in the Bolshevik forces. The second and third parts of the question, therefore, do not arise.