HC Deb 29 November 1917 vol 99 cc2243-4W
Colonel Sir J. NORTON GRIFFITHS

asked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he is now in a position to state who the German, dressed in naval officer's uniform, travelling on the Midland Railway last Monday is?

Mr. MACPHERSON

The person referred to by my hon. and gallant Friend is prisoner of war, Lieutenant Spindler, who was, I am informed, brought under escort on the 19th November from the Prisoners of War Camp, at Kegworth, Derbyshire, to attend a Prize Court in London. He was allowed to breakfast on the railway train in a compartment where there were no other passengers. During the meal the escort remained with him, and immediately afterwards took him to an ordinary compartment.