DENSHAWI INCIDENT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 78, 26 December 1907, Page 5

DENSHAWI INCIDENT.

■„•..•■. ,■ y RELEASES PROMISED. CLEMENCY ON ACCESSION DAY.' OT TELEOKArn—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COrrEIGM I ■ (Rcc. Dec; 25, 10.13 a.m.)' j Cairo, December 24. Tho Khedive,, with tho concurrence otGreat Britain, will release, upon his acces* sion day, tho natives arrested at Denshawi last year-for-attacking a party of British officers while, the latter were pigeon-shooting.- ■ A • correspondent writes from Porongahau on this subject,-and, as lie appears to have gone mto.it deeply, wo, roprodr.ee the gist of hi.statement, minus,;such portion . as ,is undo« cinherable. lie states; that .Captain'jHull and. otlicr. British- officers; iwent to a native thresh-1 ing floor, at Dpnsliawi, near Tanta. . ".What' took-place tlieit! has novcr'becir revealed;'at any rate. Captain Hull loft and the others flith?. hlin.'.'JJ!\o; natives, flndinff the women in •tear. , ' and . lamontiition, gave'"pursuit, and' bvertooll Captaiu .Jiull.ii.nd .his-..friends, who actually l , gnvq up their arms to the nativos—a most/ significant circumstance. . ' . , .' ; ' " I do not deny but that the nativos handled' Captain Hull..a little..ipnghly;. at all events,; he died a short time, after. An inquest was' held, presided over by an English coroner, an* a jury composed of. Englishmen,-.to the best off my , - Knowlcdgn. Tho, medical nvidenccj which! was also English, stilted conclusively that Cap- , tain''-Bull hnd died from a fit o( apopleiy, ac- , celerated ■ by • excitement, tho primary 'causebeing n sunstroke. - As a matter of fact, on such ' evidence the natives concerned wero discharcedJ frnm-'custody.■■• ■ .' ■ .. ; Now, mark 'the Sequel: Another was-established', and those men who, on sciea--tifio—and-- -miHlical - icrounds--had-- been found, unansH-ernblo. for ' Captain Bully death were convicted: .four' were sent tcncctkita. death, and",fnur \ .worn; ordered t*' receive fifty lashes, and. together with theothers, . long terms of -imprisonment; Thf capital sentence was carried out, and, while twis a.nd. I tffo. > )vere.,doiigliiig. iiv the air, tho o'therg ■ were place'd on- tho trmriglesTunder the bodied and ..wnro .flogged by "experienced flagellatorai Wlietlipr they ever recovered wo have had'-' no account.".,. . •--. . ' ■ .' -.. . . - 1 Our correspondent condemns bitterly tho treatment pf_natives in Kgypt, Natal,.and else, where, and remarks'-that "'ft is mily"'too"tru» what Mr. Keir H.irdie stated in the House ol Commons— that., the Government of Egypt,; under' Lord Cromer, was'brutal."