MR. BRYN ROBERTS (Carnarvonshire, Eifion)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, whether the compulsory attendance of relatives and neighbours at the execution of persons sentenced to death by military courts was discontinued on the initiative of Lord Kitchener, or in consequence of representations by the Home Government.
§ MR. BRODRICKInstructions were given to discontinue compulsory attendance at executions by Lord Kitchener on his own initiative, and before attention was called to the instances in which it had taken place.
§ MR. DAVID THOMAS (Merthyr Tyvil)Were these spectacles discontinued because they were regarded as "methods of barbarism?"