§ 30. Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that there are three conscientious objectors still in Maidstone Prison who have been there without a single day's break since June,]916; whether he is also aware that these men were sentenced to death in France, these sentences afterwards being commuted to ten years' penal servitude; and if he will say why these men have not been released from prison with other men who have served two years' imprisonment?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Shortt)The men referred to have been released.