§ 7. and 8. Mr. GINNELLasked the Under-Secretary of State for War who is responsible for having left Messrs. Lemas and Manning lying wounded in a court yard in the Custom House, Dublin, for three days of the insurrection, thereby complicating their neglected wounds with other sickness, and prolonging their time in hospital; whether he is aware that one of them is dying from pneumonia then contracted; and what the intention of the Government is with regard to these cases?
§ Mr. TENNANTI am making inquiry about this matter, and that mentioned in the next question:—
8. To ask the Under-Secretary of State for War, whether the military authorities administering martial law in Ireland have yet allowed any civil investigation of the looting done in houses under pretext of searching them, the picking of the pockets of prisoners, and of the persons shot and buried surreptitiously; whether property so acquired is deemed to belong to the individual soldier taking it; and whether any inquiry will be made or allowed to be made into the disposal of such of this property as soldiers do not use, as table linen, for example?
§ Mr. GINNELLWith reference to Question No. 8, which has been dismissed in this manner, will the right hon. Gentleman undertake that claims for property taken by soldiers from houses that they have been searching will be heard by a Civil Court?
§ Mr. SPEAKERThat question does not arise.