§ 22. Sir A. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for War the arrangements of the Red Cross for assuring that parcels of invalid comforts, sent every three weeks by relations, are received by prisoners of war in Germany, as one prisoner, to whom such parcels have been sent in the five months October to February, has received nothing, and the impression is that parcels are handed over to the camp hospital and so do not reach the individual?
§ Captain MargessonGifts of invalid comforts from relatives of prisoners of war must be sent direct from chemists to the Invalid Comforts Section of the British Red Cross Society. These contributions are then labelled with the name of the prisoner for whom they are intended and included in the parcels of invalid comforts which are sent at regular intervals by the British Red Cross Society to camps and hospitals. When the consignment reaches the camp, the senior officer is responsible for the distribution of individual parcels to the prisoners concerned. If my hon. and gallant Friend will let me have particulars of any case in which parcels sent under the arrangements to which I have referred have not reached the individual to whom they were addressed, I shall be very glad to look into it.