§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTON (Tower Hamlets, Poplar)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether he can state against how many persons sentences of banishment have been promulgated under the Proclamation which came into force on 16th September last; how many of such persons have already been banished and to where have they been sent; who signed the decrees of banishment, and what steps have been, or are being taken, to render legal those decrees of banishment.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINNo sentences of banishment have been promulgated, and leaders captured since 15th September are for the present being detained like ordinary prisoners of war. Notices have been published in the Gazettes for the new Colonies by the authority of the High Commissioner that certain persons amounting in all, I believe, to 105, having been captured under arms since 15th September have 454 come within the provisions of the High Commissioner's Proclamation of the 7th of August. The necessary legislative measures for giving effect to the Proclamation after the end of the war must be taken later.