MR. TATTON EGERTONasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to "An Interview with a Leading Dynamiter in Paris," published 224 on 1st July in The Evening News, and especially to the last paragraph; and, what steps Her Majesty's Government are taking, in concert with the French Government, to watch known conspirators and dynamiters, and prevent the throats indicated in that paragraph from being carried out?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTI think the House will see that this is a Question which I ought not to answer. My sole object, in which I only partially succeed, is to keep the measures of the police as secret as possible. To state those measures in this House would only defeat the object they have in view.
§ MR. HEALYI would ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman whether it is not the fact that there is a regular manufactory of false news by penny-a-liners in Paris?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTYes, Sir; I am inclined to admit that.