§ MR. CATHCART WASON (Orkney and Shetland)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will His Majesty's Government request by cable the British Consul at Boma for a full report from Mr. A. E. Scrivener at Bolobo, Mr. A. Billington at Bwemba, Mr. Gilcriest at Lolanga, Mr. Weeks at Mensembe, Mr. Joseph Clarke at Lkeko, and Mr. Ruskin at Bongandanga, of their Depositions before the Commission of
† See page 181.394 Inquiry, together with the substance of the evidence laid before the Commission by native witnesses produced by these gentlemen.(Answered by Earl Percy.) The Commission of Inquiry has not yet issued its Report, and we do not know to what extent notes of the evidence will be published with it. There should be no difficulty in procuring the information asked for if the published evidence is insufficient.
MR. CATHCART WASONTo ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs is His Majesty's Government aware that a number of native witnesses to outrages committed in the Baringa region were, at the instance of the British missionaries at that place and at the request of the Substitut of the Procureur d'Etat, sent down last August to Boma, involving a journey there and back of three months; can His Majesty's Government give any indication of the treatment these native witnesses are receiving at Boma; and will His Majesty's Government request the British Consul to inform them by cable on the subject.
(Answered by Earl Percy.) I am not aware of any recent occurrence of the character described.