§ MR. DAVITTI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there was an acting consul and a naval officer of the Germanic Empire at Apia when a British officer arrested 48 a German subject and submitted him to the indignity of imprisonment on one of Her Majesty's ships; whether this arrest was made on ex parte grounds without any form of investigation of trial, and was the German subject subsequently handed over to the representative of the German Government without indictment or trial; from what source did the British officer derive his right to treat a subject of a friendly Power in this arbitrary manner; whether he has been or will be called to account for his conduct; and whether any explanation of this proceeding has been given by Her Majesty's Government to the Government of Germany?
§ MR. BRODRICKGerman naval and consular officers were no doubt in Samoa when the German subject was arrested. According to the telegraphic Reports the arrest was made on sworn testimony that the German was seen directing the movements of the natives who were attacking British subjects and property. This is the whole of the information which has reached Her Majesty's Government, and fuller particulars must be awaited before they can form any judgment on the matter. The German Government have been informed that the German subject has been handed over to the commander of the German ship of war on an assurance that he would be detained there.