§ MR. DILLON (Mayo, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why a full Report of the evidence at the trial of the Denshawi prisoners and of everything that took place in connection with that trial has not been supplied to the House in accordance with the promise given by him on the 5th July last.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYThe Report of the evidence at the trial is not official, but only a summary which was not read over to the witnesses or controlled by the Court. It is substantially the same as the Report of the evidence at the preliminary inquiry, which has been presented to Parliament, except in some unimportant details. It was not considered necessary to publish both accounts, and as the account of the evidence given at the preliminary inquiry was regarded as the more accurate of the two, it was decided that it should be published.
§ MR. DILLONinquired if the Report did not show that the defence was not represented and that there was no cross-examination of any of the witnesses. This was not the Report that was promised.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYThe Reports did not differ except in unimportant points.
§ MR. DILLONCan we have a copy of the evidence?
§ SIR EDWARD GREYI am quite willing to place a copy of the evidence in the Library.