asked how many times during the last three weeks the Germans have bombed our hospitals on the northern coast of France; and what are the casualties in killed and wounded of soldiers, doctors, and nursing staff?

A recent Report from the Commander-in-Chief shows that during the period from the 15th May to the 1st June hospitals have been bombed on seven occasions. The casualties occurring in hospitals are not given separately from those caused in the district by the same raid. The total casualties in these seven raids were as follows:

Has the War Cabinet considered whether any steps can be taken in the way of reprisals in this matter?

The hon. Member must give notice of that question.

asked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that one John Faller, an un-naturalised German, is manager of the Royal Oak Hotel, Wotton-under-Edge; whether the Home Office has declined to intern him; whether there are seventy discharged soldiers in that village, many of whom would be perfectly capable of doing the work now done by this German; whether the Government are really serious in their desire to get wounded soldiers back into employment; and, if so, whether steps will be taken to get rid of this German, who has done nothing for the country, in order that his place may be filled by a wounded English soldier?

As regards the first part of the question, I am afraid that I can add nothing to the reply given on the 30th May by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary. The employment of wounded or disabled soldiers is a matter which is dealt with by the Ministry of Labour, in conjunction with the Ministry of Pensions.

asked the Home Secretary whether an order for the internment of Arthur Zadig, a naturalised British subject, was made in October, 1915, under Regulation 14 B; whether he carried the case to the House of Lords and was defeated; and why, when his internment was considered necessary, has he since been released?

The answer to the first two parts of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the rest of the question, my right hon. Friend decided that after two years' detention the case should be reconsidered, and he referred it to the Advisory Committee, who advised that Zadig might now be released without danger to the State. The Internment Order was accordingly revoked with the concurrence of the competent military authority. Although at liberty, he remains subject to stringent restrictions.

Is it not a fact that the terms of the recommendation by the Advisory Committee were that "it is for the national interest that he should now be released"?

I cannot say.

I can!

asked the First Commissioner of Works if his attention has been called to the fact that numbers of wounded soldiers and little children frequent Victoria Tower Gardens; that there is no place where a drink of water can be obtained even on the most sultry days; and that much discomfort is felt by the entire absence of any lavatory convenience; and if he will consider the desirability of erecting a lavatory for women on the east side behind the Rodin statue and for men on the east side where no possible objection could be taken?

My hon. Friend called the attention of the Secretary of my Department to the desirability of arranging for drinking water to be provided in the Victoria Tower Gardens, and this is being arranged. I shall be glad to consider the question of erection of a drinking fountain of an artistic design in these gardens if any benevolent-minded person is prepared to offer to present it to the nation. The question of lavatory conveniences is one, in my opinion, for the local authority, and should not be provided out of Imperial funds.

Is not the First Commissioner of works a benevolently minded person?

I hope so.