§ Sir J. HARMOOD-BANNERasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether the arrangements for transferring officers and non-commissioned officers to Holland still prohibits the transfer of privates from Germany to internment in Holland; and whether he is aware that the privilege given to officers and non-commissioned officers tends to create a feeling of soreness amongst the privates who are left behind in Germany?
Mr. J. HOPEThe facts are as suggested in the question, but the fault does not lie with His Majesty's Government, who proposed that privates should be included in the transfer, whereas the German Government categorically refused. My hon. Friend will doubtless have seen the statement of Lord Newton that the whole question of the transfer and exchange of prisoners of war is being reconsidered.