HC Deb 03 June 1902 vol 108 cc1272-3
MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)

I beg to ask the Secretary, of State for War whether he will state on what grounds he withheld the particulars of the trial of Commandant Kritzinger, having regard to the fact that particulars of the trial of Commandant Scheepers have been given to the public; and will he say whether Scheepers was tried and convicted on the same charges as the charges on which Kritzinger was tried and acquitted; and was the evidence at both trials in the main identical.

MR. BRODRICK

I have nothing to add to the answer which I gave the hon. Member on Wednesday last.†

MR. SWIFT MACNEILL

The right hon. Gentleman has not said on what grounds he withholds the evidence in one case and publishes it in another.

MR. BRODRICK

There was nothing which rendered it necessary to publish the evidence in that trial more than any other.

MR. SWIFT MACNEILL

But was not the evidence identical in the two cases?