§ MR. COURTNEY (Cornwall, Bodmin)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can give any further 911 information respecting the three persons who were taken back into a proclaimed district after application had been made to the High Court at Cape Town, as to whom a writ of habeas corpus was subsequently issued by the High Court and made returnable on Monday last.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINSir A. Milner informed me on the 6th instant that he had received a report from the military authorities to the effect that the general officer commanding Orange River had been carefully into the case of the three men and had ordered their release, there not being evidence to convict.