THE DENSHAWI OUTRAGE
NATIVE PRISONERS RELEASED. LONDON, February 5. Sir E. Grey, in reply to Mr F. C. Macarness, said that the Denshawi prisoners concerned in the death of Captain Bull at Tantah were released on January 7 by the Khedive's clemency, in co-opeiation with Great Britain. The Cairo correspondent of the Daily Mail, writing on December 23. 6aid : — "The Khedive is expected to include in his usual Edict extending clemency to various prisoners, which will be issued on the anniversary of his accession early in January, substantial reductions in tho sentences passed in June, 1906, on the natives tried for the fatal attack upon a party of British officers who were shooting near the village of Denshawai. There will be no pardons, but the effect of the reductions in some cases will be that the men will be liberated forthwith. In other cases there will be material reductions. "Of the prisoners, four were hanged, two were sentenced to penal servitude for life, one to 15 years, six to seven years, three to one year's imprisonment and 50 lashes, and five to 50 Lashe6."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 27
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184THE DENSHAWI OUTRAGE Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 27
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