§ MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what was the result of the trial of the sixteen Ottoman subjects who were arrested for implication in the murder of the European agent of Messrs. Lynch, at Busra, in the early part of the present year.
(Answered by Sir Edward Grey.) Two were condemned to fifteen years imprisonment with hard labour, and two to fifteen years imprisonment. Two were placed under two years police supervision, and six were condemned by default to death. Five were condemned by default to fifteen years imprisonment.