§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the hon. Member for Sheffield (Central Division) whether a regulation has been issued that no relations of our interned officers and men in Holland are to be allowed to visit them without the assent of General Hanbury Williams; if so, whether he is aware that German relations are freely allowed to visit their interned relatives; and why this difference is made in regard to the two countries?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONA certain number of the relatives of prisoners of war are employed with the Y.M.C.A. and Red Cross in Holland for limited periods. Visits by relatives may be permitted in cases of serious illness of which the gravity is certified by the General Officer in charge of British prisoners of war in Holland.
It is understood that visits by relatives to German prisoners of war are strictly 658W limited; but, in any case, the opportunities for transport between England or Germany and Holland are so different that the same rules cannot be applied.