§ Mr. PULLEYasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Captain Percy George Albert Bott, Royal Army Medical Corps, Staff College, Wellington, India, aged forty-two, who joined the Army in September, 1917, and was immediately sent to Mesopotamia, mentioned in dispatches, invalided to India in December, 1918, is still being detained in India although he has applied on several occasions to be demobilised in order to resume medical practice in Kensington; and whether, having regard to the age and record of this officer, he will sanction his immediate release?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLEvery endeavour is being made to provide reliefs for temporary medical officers serving in India, who, as the reliefs arrive, are sent home in order of priority according to length of service, age, etc. Captain Bott will be returned to the United Kingdom in his turn. The attention of the authorities in India is again being drawn to his case.