§ Mr. JOWETTasked the hon. Member for Sheffield (Central Division) if he will take steps to ascertain where Lance-Corporal Dudley Yeoward, of the West Yorks Regiment, who was taken prisoner on 25th April last and sent a postcard to his relatives from Hamburg in June following, 808W but has not been heard of since, is now located; and whether he has any evidence that prisoners of war in Germany are not being allowed to communicate with their relatives?
Mr. J. HOPEFull inquiry will be made into this case. Yeoward is probably one of those prisoners who are employed behind the lines in France, and there is, unfortunately, abundant evidence that they are not allowed to communicate with their relatives, save for a single postcard announcing their capture. The proper and humane treatment of these men is one of the conditions of the communication in the nature of an ultimatum which we recently addressed to the German Government.