§ 94. Mr. GWYNNEasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is aware that two officers suffering from advanced phthisis in Egypt, who had been awaiting transport to the United Kingdom by hospital ship, after being medically boarded, were refused a passage on the ambulance transport "Glengorm Castle," which sailed for home on the 13th May, on the grounds that accommodation was not available for infectious cases, in spite of the fact that a civilian lady suffering from the same disease was allotted a passage; that three other officers all medically boarded for treatment in the United Kingdom were refused passages on the same ship on the grounds that they had not observed some small formality in filling in their papers; whether, with the exception of some sick from Constantinople, the greater part of the accommodation on this hospital ship was taken up by fit personnel and civilians; if he will state when another ship will be available for transport from Egypt to the United Kingdom; and whether he will see that priority is given to these five officers and the other sick left out in Egypt, whose health is being seriously injured by the heat and dust storms, over fit civilians?
§ Sir A. WILLIAMSONI am making inquiries, and will write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.