§ MR. O'KELLYasked the Secretary of State for War. Whether his attention 1310 has been called to an attempt to murder committed by three soldiers on Sunday morning, May 16th, near Portobello, Dublin; whether the military authorities have made any effort to discover the guilty parties; and, if so, what efforts; and, whether he will order a list of men belonging to the detachment of the Army Service Corps, stationed in Portobello, who were absent from barracks between twelve o'clock on Saturday night and six o'clock on Sunday morning to be furnished to the police, in order to facilitate the discovery of the authors of the attempted murder?
§ MR. CHILDERSI have read the papers in this case, and I find that on the 15th of May a man named M'Call, and a woman, came to Portobello Barracks and stated that the former had been thrown into the Canal by some men of the Army Service Corps. Inquiries were made, and next morning all the men of the Array Service Corps at Portobello who had been on leave the previous night were paraded for identification by M'Call; but he failed to identify the culprits. The military authorities have used every endeavour, and given every facility to the police, to discover the culprits, but without success.