§ Mr. KEIR HARDIEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will invite Lord Kitchener to say what evidence was supplied him to support the charge that Adamovitch was a well-known revolutionary (Cd. 6874); whether the Consul - General was informed that Adamovitch has been tried and acquitted upon a charge of having incited a revolutionary strike of seamen at Odessa; whether the only formality observed in the case was the verbal application of the Russian Consul to the Governor of Alexandria for the arrest of Adamovitch; and whether this is the mode of procedure customary in such cases?
§ Sir E. GREYThe answer to the first question is that it was not necessary for a foreign Consul, in dealing with one of his own nationals, to supply any evidence. The answer to the second question is, so far as I know, in the negative, but on this and the third question I have no information except what is supplied in the White Paper. The answer to the last question is that the mode of procedure adopted in302W this case was not contrary to custom under the Capitulations.