§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if he will 879W ascertain the state whom Sir John Maxwell consulted last May, if any person, on the legality of trying persons not subject to military law by field general courts-martial, held in camera, in capital cases, and on the legality of having some such persons executed and others sent to penal servitude in pursuance of sentences of such courts; whether he was, or is, aware that this procedure is unprecedented; whether he was, or is, aware that there is no law authorising it; and if he will specify the law on which Sir John Maxwell was acting?
§ Mr. FORSTERI have nothing to add to the replies which have already been given by the late Prime Minister, the late Home Secretary, and the Attorney-General on this subject.