§ 18 and 19. Mr. GINNELLasked the Under-Secretary of State for War (1) why the military authorities under martial law in Dublin refused to take the evidence of wounded civilians in the Dublin hospitals, seeing that all those wounded persons declared it was the soldiers who had fired on them, and were willing to give evidence o that effect; and (2) whether he has yet received a report in the case of Mrs. Naylor, shot on the bridge at Great Brunswick Street, Dublin, by soldiers firing from the belfry of Haddington Road Church; under whose orders those soldiers continued for five hours firing on that bridge, where there were no Irish combatants, thus preventing the removal of the dying woman, who eventually died while being carried to hospital; and why the military did not allow an inquest in this case?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. Tennant)I have no information on these matters to-day and cannot answer the questions without making inquiry.