§ MR. H. D. GREENE (Shrewsbury)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether Her Majesty's Government have received any Dispatches or information during the Parliamentary Recess explanatory of the circumstances of Mr. Stokes's execution which they intend to lay before Parliament? Whether he can state if Major Lothaire is to be put upon his trial; and, if so, before what tribunal and where, and upon what charge, and with a liability to what punishment. Whether any and what precautions have been taken that Her Majesty's Government shall have an independent report of the proceedings upon such trial. And, whether Her Majesty's Government are to be entitled to take any part in the trial?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. GEORGE CURZON,) Lancashire, SouthportMajor Lothaire is to be put on his trial before the Court of Appeal at Boma; the nature of the charge is left to the Public Prosecutor in communication with Her Majesty's vice-Consul, who will be present at the trial to watch the case on behalf of Her Majesty's Government, and to furnish a report on the proceedings. Papers, of course, which involve the question of the prisoner's guilt or innocence cannot be produced till after the trial.