25. Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALLasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the Allies' Commission on War Crimes has reported against the punishment of those involved in the murders and out rages committed by the Central Empires in the course of the present War; and if stops will be taken to carry out the repeated pledges given by the late and the present Prime Minister that the trial and punishment of those responsible for the murder of Captain Fryatt and Nurse Cavell, the torpedoing of hospital ships, 16 the bombing of hospital camps, the killing of wounded, and the ill-treatment and torture of prisoners would be insisted upon?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Cecil Harmsworth)The answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. The provisions of the Draft Treaty of Peace with Germany, a summary of which has already been published, amply provide for the carrying out of the pledges referred to, and every effort will be made to give effect to those provisions.