§ Mr. NEWMANasked the Under-Secretary for War whether he will state the number of officers of the Royal Munster Fusiliers who have been reported as killed, as wounded, or unwounded prisoners of War, or as missing, since the outbreak of hostilities; and whether any special effort has been made to ascertain the fate of the number who have been reported missing since the end of August and of whom nothing has since been heard?
§ Mr. TENNANTThe number is twenty-four. Of the nineteen originally reported missing, unofficial information considered reliable has within the last few days been received. This has been communicated to relatives.