HC Deb 09 July 1903 vol 125 c147
MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether J. C. Vantyen, a Boer officer, who when prisoner of war at Trichinopoly was sentenced by an English commander to fourteen months imprisonment with hard labour, is still in gaol; and what was the offence for which this penalty was inflicted.

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Lord STANLEY,) Lancashire, Westhoughton

This man was sentenced on 3rd April, 1902, to imprisonment with hard labour for fifteen months for complicity in a disturbance among the prisoners of war in camp. He was released in November last.

MR. SWIFT MACNEILL

I hope he was not guilty of "ragging."