§ MR. CARLILEI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that no proceedings were taken against Captain Grogan and those associated with him in the Nairobi incidents for a week, and that they were not arrested until nine days after the chastising of the natives, to which exception was taken; and will he say whether the issue of summonses, and the subsequent arrests, were the result of instructions from the Colonial Office.
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. CHURCHILL,) Manchester, N.W.With regard to the first part of the hon. Member's Question, the natives were flogged on Thursdays, 14th March, and 528 on Tuesday, the 19th, summonses were issued against Captain Grogan and his associates to appear on Monday, the 25th, With regard to the second part of the hon.Member's Question, no instructions were sent from the Colonial Office, but in one of his telegrams the Secretary of State said that he presumed that legal proceedings had been taken against the ringleaders, and the Acting Commissioner replied that summonses had been issued.
§ MR. CARLILEMay we take it that the arrests were the result of recommendations made by the right hon. Gentleman?
§ MR. CHURCHILLAs far as I am aware, it is exactly the contrary.