§ 26. Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYasked the Prime Minister whether a body of about a thousand German Reichswehr troops, under the Command of General von Gillhausen, was driven into the British Occupied Zone during the Kapp-Luttwitz Revolution; whether these troops were supporting the constitutional Government or the Kapp-Luttwitz movement; whether they have been released; if so, whether they were first deprived of their arms; whether they have been allowed to enter the Ruhr Valley Zone; and what is our policy towards German troops retreating into the Occupied Zone?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI understand this question is to be answered by the War Office.
§ MR. CHURCHILL has furnished the following reply:—
§ A body of about 1,500 German Reichswehr troops, under General von Gillhausen—which were supporting the constitutional government, were driven by the Red Forces into the British occupied territory on the 19th March.
16§ They were disarmed and interned, and have now been repatriated to unoccupied Germany without their arms.
§ The policy as regards treatment of German troops which enter the British occupied territory is first to disarm and temporarly intern all such troops and subsequently to repatriate them without their arms to an undisturbed part of unoccupied Germany, under arrangements made with the German Authorities.