§ MR. O'DOWD (Sligo, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to a statement by Corporal Wynne Jones, A. S. C., that on entering Petersburg the troops shot down a young Boer whom they found there, and afterwards finished him with the bayonet, and whether he will institute inquiries with the view of having the men who committed this murder punished.
§ MR. BRODRICKNo, Sir. I am not aware of any such statement, nor am I prepared to institute inquiries into a statement unsupported by corroborative testimony.