§ Mr. WHITEHOUSEasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that Arthur Childs, a conscientious objector who was arrested in May, 1917, was examined by a military doctor and said to be suffering from heart disease; whether this man, who is at present in Wandsworth prison serving a sentence of two years' imprisonment, is in a hospital cell suffering from a weak heart; whether he is being forcibly fed; and whether he will have inquiries made with a view to this man's release on medical grounds?
§ Mr. BRACEArthur Childs was discharged from prison on medical grounds on the 2nd instant. He was not fed forcibly.
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§ Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Home Secretary whether it is the fact that Isaac Hall, a coloured man from Jamaica, is imprisoned at Pentonville as a conscientious objector; if so, whether he is treated exactly like others of the same sort; and whether it is a fact that he had no opportunity of appearing before any tribunal?
§ Mr. BRACEThe answer to the first two parts of the question is in the affirmative. Hall appeared before the Central Tribunal in February, 1917, but declined to accept work under the Committee on Employment of Conscientious Objectors.