§ MR. LABOUCHERE (Northampton)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any Report has been received of the recent case of the shooting of two Fellahs in Egypt by a British officer, and the subsequent flogging of several of the inhabitants of the village where it occurred by British soldiers; whether any explanation has been given in the Report (if received) as to the law in Egypt with regard to the flogging of Natives by British soldiers; and, whether, if any Report or despatch upon the subject has been received, he will present it to the House?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Man-1172 chester, N.E.) No Report has been received at the Foreign Office of any such incident since that which happened in March last, and of which I gave a very full account in reply to a Question from the hon. Member for Kirkcaldy (Sir George Campbell) on the 14th of April.
§ MR. LABOUCHEREasked, whether the answer given to the hon. Member for Kirkcaldy was not on information received by telegraph; and whether a detailed Report of the circumstances had not since been received?
§ SIR JAMES FERGUSSONsaid, his impression, speaking from memory, was that the account he gave to the House was from a detailed Report. If the hon. Gentleman wished to wove for Papers there would be no objection, to giving them.