§ SIR CHARLES CAYZER (Barrow-in-Furness)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that Mr. Wilfrid Blunt's Bedouin servants, three of whom were recently punished for assaulting officers of 11th Hussars, near Cairo, some time previously, by Mr. Blunt's directions, flogged two Greeks who went into his enclosure until they were insensible; and what steps, if any, were taken in this matter.
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Viscount CRANBORNE, Rochester)His Majesty's Government have no information of the incident mentioned. They understand that at the trial of the men accused of assaulting the British officers, the defendant's counsel mentioned that he had himself witnessed a case where two Italians who had trespassed on Mr. Blunt's property were bound and severely beaten in Mr. Blunt's presence. If the facts were as stated it was clearly for the sufferens to complain to the authorities or take legal remedies. It is not known whether they did so.