§ 3. Mr. HOAREasked what was the number of Europeans who, by the inquiry, were found guilty of acts of slave traffic in the Portuguese Colony of Angola, to which reference is made in the written communication of Senhor Vasconcellos to Sir Arthur Hardinge on the 23rd October of last year?
§ Sir E. GREYThe number tried was eleven. As the hon. Member will see from Mr. Drummond-Hay's dispatch of 17th June, 1911, which is No. 40 in the recent White Rook, these persons were, as a matter of fact, acquitted of the charge of slave dealing, and Senhor Vasconcellos' statement appears to that extent to have been inaccurate.