§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Secretary of State for War if he will ascertain and 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 persons executed and other persons 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, or interpretation of the law, on which Sir John Maxwell supposed he was acting?
§ Mr. FORSTERI have nothing to add to the replies which have already been given by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary, and the Attorney-General on this subject.