§ Colonel BURNasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether British Service officers taken prisoner in Kut drew Indian rates of pay while in India and Mesopotamia, but reverted to British rates sixty-one days after being taken prisoner; and whether, in view of the fact that Asia Minor is, like Mesopotamia and India, an Oriental country, he will arrange for British Service officers, like Indian Army officers, to draw full pay and half-staff pay for the period of captivity after the first sixty-one days?
§ Mr. FORSTERThe answer to the first part of my hon. and gallant Friend's 1253W question is in the affirmative. I am afraid I cannot adopt the suggestion contained in the latter part.