THE TANTAH INCIDENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8172, 2 July 1906, Page 5

THE TANTAH INCIDENT.

COMPOSITION OJf THE COURT. SAFEGUARD AGAINST A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE. LONDON, June 29. Sir Edward Grey stated that the Court was oomposed of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Bond (VicePresident of the Native Court of Appeal and practically Lord Chief Justice), Fattin Bey (President of ihe Cairo Native Court), and Mr Hayter (acting Judicial aaviser), Colonel Ludlow officiating as Judge's advocate. Neither the Egyptian Government nor Lord Cromer was legally entitled to interfere. "I am confident," added Sir Edward Grey, "that the character of the tribunal was the greatest ; safeguard possible against a miscarriage of justice. (Cheers). 1 am informed that two and not four have been sentenced to penal servitude. Sir Edward Grey said he intended to discuss with, Lord Cromer the of the flogging law. SENTENCES CARRIED OUT. PAINFUL SCENES. LONDON, Jane 29. A telegram from Keuter's Cairo correspondent states that four natives were hanged and six flogged in a roped-in space where the assaults were committed. The gallows and whipping post were in the centre. A man was first hanged, and left hanging while two were whipped. Then another was tianged and two more whipped. 'The remaining two were afterwards hanged and the other culprits flogged. The Daily Telegraph's Cairo correspondent states that hundreds of natives gathered at the scene. Women wailed as the droy fell, and the flogging caused hurrible cries, evoking from the native onlookers groans. The scene was a painful one. The condemned men were yery quiet. The Egyptian newspapers admit the justice of the sentence.