§ 87. Mr. Skeffington-Lodgeasked the Secretary of State for War what is the present status of the 27 naval officers and 187 other ranks handed over by the Japanese at Singapore as German internees and treated by us as surrendered personnel up to their arrival in Liverpool on 21st July, 1946, on what they had been informed was a repatriation journey to Germany, and why are they still being held in this country instead of being treated like the Ueberfuhrten von Norwegen who were long ago returned under the Geneva Convention to their own country.
§ Mr. M. StewartThese men are held here as prisoners of war. My information is that no official promise of repatriation was made to them. All prisoners of war in the United Kingdom are repatriated according to a common plan and I see no reason for making an exception in these cases.