Part of Orders of the Day — Supply. — [12th Allotted Day.] – in the House of Commons at on 29 May 1919.
I do so for the purpose of giving the Secretary of State for War an opportunity of explaining fully the purpose of the extraordinary document that was issued by his Department some time ago, and as the document itself bears out, was issued for the special information of the Secretary of State himself. The document to which I refer reads as follows. It is marked:
Secret and urgent.
1. I am directed to request that until further notice you will furnish information on the headings hereunder as regards the troops in your area, and that you will arrange for a report to reach this office without fail not later than first post each Thursday morning.
I understand from a reply given recently that these reports are still being supplied to the Secretary of State. The points on which information was asked were—