§ Sir L. Lyleasked the Secretary of State for War whether the treatment of British prisoners of war in Italian camps was satisfactory.
§ Sir J. GriggIt is impossible, I think, to give within the scope of an answer to a Question an account of the conditions in the many prisoner of war camps in various parts of Italy and North Africa. The treatment in the camps differed widely and depended in many cases on the personal inclination of individual commandants. In numerous cases, par-2230W ticularly in the North African transit camps, the conditions were most unsatisfactory.