§ MR. HUNTER (Aberdeen, N.)asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether his attention has been called to the following passage in a recent telegram from The Times correspondent at Mandalay:—
Boshway, who now requires a brigade to check him, offered to surrender if his life was spared, this was refused, although, since the conquest of Burmah, Boshway does not appear to have committed any crime except fighting against us. Boshway's brother surrendered under the terms of the Amnesty Proclamation, in similar circumstance, and was sentenced to penal servitude for life;and, whether this information is accurate, and what instructions the Government of India have issued with reference to the treatment of prisoners taken in engagements between Her Majesty's forces and the people of Upper Burmah?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY STATE (Sir JOHN GORST) (Chatham)There is nothing in the official information which has reached the Secretary of State 1094 which in any way confirms the statements of The Times Correspondent referred to. All military executions were stopped in Upper Burmah in January last, and prisoners are now dealt with by civil tribunals according to law.