Sir A. HOLBROOKasked the Home Secretary whether M. Szumskis, a Lithuanian, who was recently sentenced at the Thames Police Court to one month's imprisonment and recommended for deportation for neglecting officially to notify the police of his change of address, has been refused an appeal on the ground that no right of appeal exists where the sentence does not exceed one month, and that the recommendation to deportation is regarded as not counting in the sentence; and whether, in view of the technical nature of his offence and of the character he has borne throughout a long period of residence in this country, he will recommend that this man's sentence be commuted to a small fine and that the 2300W recommendation for deportation should not be acted upon?
Mr. SHORTTI understand the Court decided that there was no right of appeal in this case, but were willing to state a special case. This point is to be mentioned again on the 11th proximo. Meanwhile, Szumskis has been released on bail, and it would not be proper for me to intervene in or discuss the case at present.