§ Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMSasked the Secretary of State for War whether the Germans have been found to be in possession of many names of British soldiers who during the War were prisoners in Germany, but whose names as such were never notified to England; whether the names of such men have been merely published in the "English Gazette" as missing; and what steps are now being taken to allay public anxiety by tracing the fate of every man who, when described as missing, is now known to have been in fact a prisoner of war in Germany?
§ Mr. FORSTERExamination of German records has established the deaths of a few men of whose fate we were ignorant and who had hitherto been recorded as ''missing." The Germans are held strictly accountable for all whom we know, or whom we may in future learn from their records or from other sources, to have been prisoners of war in their hands. The search of German records is being prosecuted.