§ MR. LOUGH (Islington, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the fact that about a dozen of the mutineers of the West African Regiment were shot and 128 sent as prisoners to Sierra Leone, he will state whether these troops committed any offence beyond leaving Coomassie two months after the period of their engagement there had ended.
§ MR. BRODRICKI am not in a position to reply to the question without a full report of the circumstances, which has not yet arrived.
§ MR. BRODRICKI have no information at present beyond that I have given to the hon. Member.
§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSY (Limerick, W.)Will the right hon. Gentleman cable for the information?
§ MR. BRODRICKI have done so.