§ Mr. N. M'LEANasked the Secretary of State for War whether he will cause inquiries to be made into the case of Moses Johns, of the 18th Machine Gun Guards, now in Wandsworth Prison; whether he was court-martialled at Pirbright for threatening to assault a superior officer; whether, after hunger-striking for three days in Wandsworth Prison, he had been forcibly fed for twenty-two days; and whether he is to be removed to Epsom Asylum in consequence?
§ Mr. SHORTTI have made inquiry and find that this prisoner was received in Wandsworth Prison on the 8th March and at once refused to take food. He was fed artificially from 11th March to 4th April, when, having been certified to be insane, he was removed to Brookwood Asylum. I am advised that there is no ground for the suggestion that his insanity was caused by the artificial feeding, but rather that his refusal to take food was the result of insanity.