§ 1. Mr. ATKEYasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the position of British subjects in Poland, and in particular to the sister of Mrs. Tod, of Nottingham, who has been in that country for five years and endured privations, who cannot receive letters from this country, but who can send letters to Nottingham, 1449 who has applied to the British Mission in Warsaw for repatriation but without avail, is quite without money and whose relatives are unable to send any, who has been compelled for the last six months to live on potatoes and beetroot, and whose position is causing anxiety to her friends; and whether he will take urgent and immediate steps which will enable this lady to be repatriated?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr Cecil Harmsworth)The answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the second part of the question, His Majesty's representative in Warsaw has been authorised to advance to destitute British subjects sufficient money to enable them to return to the United Kingdom, also to visa their passports and make arrangements for their journey.