§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has read the affidavit of Dandunnage Davit Sinno, of Algoda, Ceylon, that on the morning of the 10th June, 1915, a number of English officers and Punjabi soldiers came to his house, arrested him, tied him up, led him by the house of James Bass to the bank of the river; out of fifteen men placed three apart; talked in English, which the men did not understand; asked no questions whatever; bandaged the eyes of the three men, Podisirno, Thelenis Appu, and James Bass, and had them shot by the soldiers; under what authority they were summarily executed without having been questioned; and, if His Majesty disapproves of that procedure, whether Sir Robert Chalmers, then Governor of Ceylon, will be asked for an explanation?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI have read what purports to be a transcript of the affidavit in question, but I have no reason to believe that it accurately represents the facts.